echeme

名词 n.
发音 ĕk′ēm

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables).
    — This new term, then, is echeme, defined as: a first-order assemblage of syllables.

词形变化

echemes plural

词源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἤχημα (ḗkhēma, “a sound”), from ἠχέω (ēkhéō, “I make sound, I chirp”) + -μᾰ (-mă, forming nouns form verbal stems). Introduced by Broughton (1976).
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