eclipsis

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”). Doublet of eclipse. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/ === Noun === eclipsis (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses) (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted. (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 ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== ecthlipsis ellipsis === References === 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. == Catalan == === Verb === eclipsis second-person singular present subjunctive of eclipsar == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈkliːp.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈklip.sis] === Noun === eclīpsis f (genitive eclīpsis); third declension a solar eclipse ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Related terms ==== eclipticus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “eclipsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press == Occitan == === Noun === eclipsis plural of eclipsi == Spanish == === Noun === eclipsis m pl plural of eclipsi