apocalypsis

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “cover”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.pɔ.kaˈlyp.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.po.kaˈlip.sis] === Noun === apocalypsis f (genitive apocalypsis or apocalypseōs or apocalypsios); third declension revelation, disclosing ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem). 1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “apocalypsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "apocalypsis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “apocalypsis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.