eclipsis
See also: eklipsis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/
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) 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.
Synonyms
- (mutation in Irish grammar): nasalization
Translations
Mutation in Irish grammar
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Latin

eclīpsis (an eclipse)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eˈkliːp.sis/
Inflection
Third declension i-stem.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | eclīpsis | eclīpsēs |
Genitive | eclīpsis | eclīpsium |
Dative | eclīpsī | eclīpsibus |
Accusative | eclīpsem | eclīpsēs |
Ablative | eclīpse | eclīpsibus |
Vocative | eclīpsis | eclīpsēs |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- eclipsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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