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eclipsis
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”). Doublet of eclipse.
Pronunciation
Noun
eclipsis (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)
- (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
- A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted.
- (Irish grammar, Manx grammar) A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations#Eclipsis.
- Synonym: nasalization
Translations
omission of words — see ellipsis
line or dash to show that text has been omitted — see ellipsis
See also
References
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Eclipsis”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
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Verb
eclipsis
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈkliːp.sɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈklip.sis]
Noun
eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “eclipsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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Occitan
Noun
eclipsis
Spanish
Noun
eclipsis m pl
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