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ἔκλειψις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκλειψις ἐκλείψεως

Structure: ἐκλειψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. disappearance, abandonment
  2. especially disappearance of a celestial body: eclipse

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀποστεῖλάι με βολίδασ τοῦ λιμοῦ ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἔσονται εἰσ ἔκλειψιν, καὶ συντρίψω στήριγμα ἄρτου σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 5:16)
  • τῶν δὲ Ῥωμαίων, ὥσπερ ἐστὶ νενομισμένον, χαλκοῦ τε πατάγοισ ἀνακαλουμένων τὸ φῶσ αὐτῆσ καὶ πυρὰ πολλὰ δαλοῖσ καὶ δᾳσὶν ἀνεχόντων πρὸσ τὸν οὐρανόν, οὐδὲν ὅμοιον ἔπραττον οἱ Μακεδόνεσ, ἀλλὰ φρίκη καὶ θάμβοσ τὸ στρατόπεδον κατεῖχε καὶ λόγοσ ἡσυχῇ διὰ πολλῶν ἐχώρει, βασιλέωσ τὸ φάσμα σημαίνειν ἔκλειψιν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 17 4:1)
  • οὐσία μὲν γὰρ ἡ αὐτὴ τοῦ τὴν νύκτα ποιοῦντοσ καὶ τοῦ τὴν ἔκλειψιν σώματοσ, μέγεθοσ δ’ οὐκ ἴσον· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 19 7:1)
  • "ἔκλειψίσ ἐστιν ἡλίου σύνοδοσ σκιᾶσ σελήνησ, ἧσ τὴν ἔκλειψιν ἐκείνοισ γὰρ μόνοισ ἔκλειψίσ ἐστιν, ὧν ἂν ἡ σκιὰ τῆσ σελήνησ καταλαβοῦσα τὴν ὄψιν ἀντιφράξαι πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 19 12:2)
  • "ἐλάμβανεν ἡ σελήνη ἔκλειψιν" . (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 20 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. disappearance

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