ἔκλειψις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐκλείπω (ekleípō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /é.kleːp.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈe.klip.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈe.klip.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈe.klip.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.klip.sis/
Noun
ἔκλειψῐς • (ékleipsis) f (genitive ἐκλείψεως); third declension
- disappearance, abandonment
- especially disappearance of a celestial body: eclipse
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ ἔκλειψῐς; τῆς ἐκλείψεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἔκλειψῐς hē ékleipsis | τὼ ἐκλείψει tṑ ekleípsei | αἱ ἐκλείψεις hai ekleípseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐκλείψεως tês ekleípseōs | τοῖν ἐκλειψέοιν toîn ekleipséoin | τῶν ἐκλείψεων tôn ekleípseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐκλείψει têi ekleípsei | τοῖν ἐκλειψέοιν toîn ekleipséoin | ταῖς ἐκλείψεσῐ / ἐκλείψεσῐν taîs ekleípsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἔκλειψῐν tḕn ékleipsin | τὼ ἐκλείψει tṑ ekleípsei | τᾱ̀ς ἐκλείψεις tā̀s ekleípseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔκλειψῐ ékleipsi | ἐκλείψει ekleípsei | ἐκλείψεις ekleípseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: eclipse, eclipsis
- Greek: έκλειψη (ékleipsi)
- Latin: eclīpsis
Further reading
- “ἔκλειψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔκλειψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔκλειψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔκλειψις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- eclipse idem, page 260.