ecstasis

English

Etymology 1

Noun

ecstasis (countable and uncountable, plural ecstases)

1. Alternative form of ekstasis

Etymology 2

Noun

ecstasis

1. (prosody) Synonym of paragoge
   • 1811, Peter Wilson, Introduction to Greek Prosody, page 160:

     The insertion of the i by poetic ecstasis furnishes the syllable necessary to complete the number of feet, […]

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis).

Noun

ecstasis f (genitive ecstasis or ecstaseōs or ecstasios); third declension

1. ecstasy, trance, rapture

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ecstasis	ecstasēs ecstaseis
Genitive	ecstasis ecstaseōs ecstasios	ecstasium
Dative	ecstasī	ecstasibus
Accusative	ecstasim ecstasin ecstasem1	ecstasēs ecstasīs
Ablative	ecstasī ecstase1	ecstasibus
Vocative	ecstasis ecstasi	ecstasēs ecstaseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

References

• “ecstasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ecstasis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ecstasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.