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)

  1. (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
  2. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted.
  3. (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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Catalan

Verb

eclipsis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of eclipsar

Latin

eclīpsis (an eclipse)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, absence, abandoning).

Pronunciation

Noun

eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension

  1. a solar eclipse

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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Occitan

Noun

eclipsis

  1. plural of eclipsi

Spanish

Noun

eclipsis m pl

  1. plural of eclipsi