Ecce homo
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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Ecce homo is aGermannoun. It means: Ausspruch des Pilatus nach dem Johannesevangelium, als er Jesus dem Volke vorführte: »Seht da den Menschen!«, Da ist der Mensch! ( Johannes 19,5 EU) oder in der Übersetzung Martin Luthers: »Sehet, ... Pronounced [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ecce homo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Ecce homo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛkt͡sə ˈhoːmo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ecce homo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Ecce homo, spelled E-C-C-E- -H-O-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ausspruch des Pilatus nach dem Johannesevangelium, als er Jesus dem Volke vorführte: »Seht da den Menschen!«, Da ist der Mensch! ( Johannes 19,5 EU) oder in der Übersetzung Martin Luthers: »Sehet, welch ein Mensch!«
- 2(seit dem 15. Jahrhundert häufige) Darstellung Christi nach der Geißelung mit der Dornenkrone, dem Spottmantel und dem Rohr
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