ecstasis

ecstasis (countable and uncountable, plural ecstases)

1. Alternative form of ekstasis.

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,

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

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

1. ecstasy, trance, rapture

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

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• “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.