"eclipsis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/ Forms: eclipses [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”). Doublet of eclipse. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*leykʷ-}}, {{lbor|en|grc|ἔκλειψις||disappearance, abandoning}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”), {{doublet|en|eclipse}} Doublet of eclipse Head templates: {{en-noun|~|eclipses}} eclipsis (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)
  1. (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-eclipsis-en-noun-3bgz4myg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 16 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 37 22 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 38 19 43
  2. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-eclipsis-en-noun-kG1~k5xX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 16 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 37 22 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 38 19 43
  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. Tags: Irish, countable, uncountable Synonyms: nasalization Translations (mutation in Irish grammar): Eklipse [feminine] (German), urú [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-eclipsis-en-noun-jiS0Helg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 16 46 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 19 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 37 22 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 38 19 43 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 30 28 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 15 15 70 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mutation in Irish grammar': 10 5 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ecthlipsis, ellipsis

Inflected forms

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