apocalypsis
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “cover”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.po.kaˈlyp.sis/, [äpɔkäˈlʲʏps̠ɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.po.kaˈlip.sis/, [äpokäˈlipsis]
Noun
apocalypsis f (genitive apocalypsis or apocalypseōs or apocalypsios); third declension
- revelation, disclosing
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | apocalypsis | apocalypsēs apocalypseis |
| Genitive | apocalypsis apocalypseōs apocalypsios | apocalypsium |
| Dative | apocalypsī | apocalypsibus |
| Accusative | apocalypsim apocalypsin apocalypsem1 | apocalypsēs apocalypsīs |
| Ablative | apocalypsī apocalypse1 | apocalypsibus |
| Vocative | apocalypsis apocalypsi | apocalypsēs apocalypseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
Descendants
- Catalan: apocalipsi
- → Middle English: apocalips
- English: apocalypse
- French: apocalypse
- Hungarian: apokalipszis
- Irish: apacailipsis
- Galician: apocalipse
- Italian: apocalisse
- Old Irish: abcolips
- Portuguese: apocalipse
- Romanian: apocalips
- Russian: апока́липсис (apokálipsis)
- Spanish: apocalipsis
References
- “apocalypsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apocalypsis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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