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eclipsis

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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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Translations

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omission of words — see ellipsis
line or dash to show that text has been omitted — see ellipsis

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Catalan

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Verb

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eclipsis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of eclipsar

Latin

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eclīpsis (an eclipse)

Etymology

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

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Noun

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eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension

  1. a solar eclipse

Declension

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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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Occitan

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Noun

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eclipsis

  1. plural of eclipsi

Spanish

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Noun

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eclipsis m pl

  1. plural of eclipsi
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