eclipsis
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
omission of words — see ellipsis
line or dash to show that text has been omitted — see ellipsis
ReferencesEdit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
CatalanEdit
VerbEdit
eclipsis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of eclipsar
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈkliːp.sis/, [ɛˈklʲiːps̠ɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈklip.sis/, [eˈklipsis]
NounEdit
eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | eclīpsis | eclīpsēs |
| Genitive | eclīpsis | eclīpsium |
| Dative | eclīpsī | eclīpsibus |
| Accusative | eclīpsem | eclīpsēs eclīpsīs |
| Ablative | eclīpse | eclīpsibus |
| Vocative | eclīpsis | eclīpsēs |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “eclipsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
OccitanEdit
NounEdit
eclipsis
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
eclipsis m pl