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ecce

/ˈɛksi/

ecce interjection: an interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold!

Interjection

  1. an interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold!
    • DEAR SIR, — Ecce my notes on the sermon.1819 November 24, “Baron Merian to Samuel Butler”, in Complete Works of Samuel Butler, Delphi Classics, published 2015
    • Ecce the rise of literature in the modern vernaculars, even the mother tongue2013, T. Bonfiglio, Why is English Literature?:, →ISBN, page 58
    Synonyms:
    lo

Noun capitalized: ECCE

ECCE (plural ECCEs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of extracapsular cataract extraction

Synonyms of ecce

Forms of ecce

pluralECCEs

Origin of ecce

Borrowed from Latin ecce.

Phrases with ecce

Questions about ecce

What does ecce mean?
Ecce means an interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold!
What part of speech is ecce?
Ecce can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce ecce?
Ecce is pronounced /ˈɛksi/.

Words near ecce in the dictionary

  1. eccaleobions
  2. ECCC
  3. ECCCM
  4. eccDNA
  5. eccDNAs
  6. ecce
  7. ecce homo
  8. ecce homos
  9. Ecce Mono
  10. eccedentesiast
  11. ecceity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ecce (page history and authors); ECCE (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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