eclipsis
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
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[edit]Translations
[edit]omission of words — see ellipsis
line or dash to show that text has been omitted — see ellipsis
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]eclipsis
Latin
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eˈkliːp.sis/, [ɛˈklʲiːps̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈklip.sis/, [eˈklipsis]
Noun
[edit]eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension
Declension
[edit]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 |
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “eclipsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Occitan
[edit]Noun
[edit]eclipsis
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]eclipsis m pl
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