echolalia

echolalia

English

Etymology

From echo +‎ -lalia; Latin ēchō from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”), and -lalia from Ancient Greek λαλιά (laliá, “talk, chat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɛkə(ʊ)ˈleɪlɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɛkoʊˈleɪliə/
• Rhymes: -eɪliə

Noun

echolalia (countable and uncountable, plural echolalias)

1. (clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
   • 1984, Jon Eisenson, Aphasia and related disorders in children, page 30:

     Their echolalic responses may be much more extensive than the single words or short phrases that are characteristic of normal echolalia. Thus, a pseudoverbal autistic child may respond to "Do you want a cookie, Jimmy?" with a replication of the very same words.

2. An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
3. Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
   • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 50:

     There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.

Translations

echoing of words or phrases

Bulgarian: ехола́лия f (eholálija) Catalan: ecolàlia f Chinese: Mandarin: 模仿言語／模仿言语 (mófǎngyányǔ) Czech: echolálie f Dutch: echolalie (nl) f Finnish: kaikupuhe, ekolalia (fi) French: écholalie (fr) f German: Echolalie (de) f Icelandic: bergmálstal n Italian: ecolalia (it) f Lithuanian: echolalija f Polish: echolalia (pl) f Portuguese: ecolalia f Romanian: ecolalie (ro) f Russian: эхола́лия (ru) f (exolálija) Serbo-Croatian: eholalija (sh) f, ехолалија f Spanish: ecolalia (es) f Swedish: ekolali (sv) Turkish: ekolali (tr)

References

• “echolalia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “echolalia”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French écholalie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.xɔˈla.lja/

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• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: e‧cho‧la‧lia

Noun

echolalia f

1. (clinical psychology) echolalia (immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another)
2. (poetry, rhetoric) echolalia (stylistic device consisting of the repetition of identical or similar vocal groups solely in order to emphasise the rhythmic or melodic character of the text)

Declension

Declension of echolalia

	singular
nominative	echolalia
genitive	echolalii
dative	echolalii
accusative	echolalię
instrumental	echolalią
locative	echolalii
vocative	echolalio

Derived terms

adjective

• echolaliczny

 

Further reading

• echolalia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• echolalia in Polish dictionaries at PWN