eclipsis

noun
/ɪˈklɪpsɪs/

Etymology

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

  1. learned borrowing from ἔκλειψις

Definitions

  1. 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. A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eclipsis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA