English

Noun

eclipsis ‎(uncountable)

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.

Synonyms

• (mutation in Irish grammar): nasalization

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editor (1884–1928) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697; and The Oxford English Dictionary; being a Corrected Re-issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (the First Supplement), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, OCLC 2748467.

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Verb

eclipsis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of eclipsar

Latin

eclīpsis (an eclipse)

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

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Related terms

• eclipticus

Descendants

References

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