eclipsis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/

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) 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.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933

Verb

eclipsis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of eclipsar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈkliːp.sis/

Noun

eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension

1. a solar eclipse

References

• eclipsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press