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单词 echt
释义

echt

See also: Echt, écht, and -echt

English

WOTD – 2 December 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from German echt (real). The German term originates from Middle Low German echt (lawful, genuine), contraction of ehacht, variant form of ehaft (lawful, pertaining to the law) from ê(e) (law, marriage).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛkt/
    • (file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛkt

Adjective

echt (comparative more echt, superlative most echt)

  1. proper, real, genuine, true to type
    • 2009, January 18, “Ross Douthat”, in When Buckley Met Reagan:
      An echt Burkean with a snob’s disdain for the contemporary Republican Party, Hart hinted at a road not taken [] .
    • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, Penguin, p.8
      I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Chet, Tech., chet, etch, hect-, tech

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German echt, from Middle High German echt, from Middle Low German echt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛxt]
  • Hyphenation: echt

Adjective

echt (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) echt, genuine, pure, unadulterated
    Synonyms: nefalšovaný, opravdový, ryzí

Derived terms

adjective
  • echtovní
adverb
  • echtovně

Further reading

  • echt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • echt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • echt in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛxt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: echt
  • Rhymes: -ɛxt
  • Homophone: Echt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch echt, from Old Dutch *ēhaft, from Proto-West Germanic *aiwahaft.

Adjective

echt (comparative echter, superlative echtst)

  1. authentic, true, genuine, real
    Synonyms: waar, heus
    Antonyms: onecht, nep, vals
Inflection
Inflection of echt
uninflectedecht
inflectedechte
comparativeechter
positivecomparativesuperlative
predicative/adverbialechtechterhet echtst
het echtste
indefinitem./f. sing.echteechtereechtste
n. sing.echtechterechtste
pluralechteechtereechtste
definiteechteechtereechtste
partitiveechtsechters
Derived terms
  • echtheid
  • onecht
  • rasecht
  • in het echt
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: eg
  • Petjo: echt, echies
  • Papiamentu: echt

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

echt m (uncountable)

  1. The institution marriage, matrimony.
    In de echt verbinden
    to bind in matrimony
    Synonym: huwelijk
Derived terms
  • echtelijk
  • echtgelofte
  • echtgenoot
  • echtscheiding
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: echt, echte

German

Alternative forms

  • ächt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German echt, borrowed from Middle Low German echt (lawful, genuine). The original form is Middle Low German ēhaft (lawful), from ē (law) (related to modern Ehe); then ēhacht by the Low German development -ft--cht- (compare Nichte); and eventually contracted into echt. Cognate to Old High German ēhaft (honourable) and Dutch echt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛçt/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛçt

Adjective

echt (strong nominative masculine singular echter, comparative echter, superlative am echtesten)

  1. authentic, genuine, true
    Die Jacke ist aus echtem Leder.
    The jacket is made of genuine leather.
    • 1994, “Es möchte echt sein”, in In Echt, performed by Die Sterne:
      Hallo Lexikon, erklär mir wie das funktioniert / Es möchte echt sein / Echt
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. (chiefly colloquial) real; factual
    Synonyms: wirklich, tatsächlich
    Der Film ist nah an der echten Geschichte.
    The film is close to the real story.
  3. (mathematics) proper
    echte Teilmengeproper subset

Declension

Derived terms

  • echtgolden
  • Echtheit
  • echt jetzt
  • echtsilbern
  • in echt
  • waschecht

Descendants

  • English: echt

Adverb

echt

  1. (chiefly colloquial) really; indeed
    Synonym: wirklich
    Das war echt gut.That was really good.

Further reading

  • echt” in Duden online
  • echt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Scots

Verb

echt

  1. Alternative form of aicht (to own)

References

  • echt, v.tr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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