eclipsis

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/

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

• ecthlipsis
• ellipsis

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Eclipsis”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

eclipsis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of eclipsar

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛˈkliːp.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈklip.sis]

eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension

1. a solar eclipse

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• eclipticus

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

eclipsis

1. plural of eclipsi

eclipsis m pl

1. plural of eclipsi