eclipsis
Meaning
Noun
- An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase
- A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted
- 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.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις ("disappearance, abandoning").
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