ecthlipsis

noun
/ɛkθˈlɪp.sɪs/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκθλιψις (ékthlipsis).

  1. derived from ἔκθλιψις

Definitions

  1. The dropping out or suppression of a consonant from a word, with or without a vowel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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