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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔκλειψις ἐκλείψει ἐκλείψεις
Genitive ἐκλείψεως ἐκλείψοιν ἐκλείψεων
Dative ἐκλείψει ἐκλείψοιν ἐκλείψεσιν*
Accusative έ̓κλειψιν ἐκλείψει ἐκλείψεις
Vocative έ̓κλειψι ἐκλείψει ἐκλείψεις

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

  • "τρίτον τοίνυν ἔτι τὸ τοῦ χρόνου λάβε καὶ τὸ τοῦ μεγέθουσ τῶν ἐκλείψεων αὐτῆσ. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 20 5:12)
  • "Διὸ δὴ κἂν πλείουσ αἰτίασ εὑρίσκωμεν τροπῶν καὶ δύσεων καὶ ἀνατολῶν καὶ ἐκλείψεων καὶ τῶν τοιουτοτρόπων, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ κατὰ μέροσ γινομένοισ ἦν, οὐ δεῖ νομίζειν τὴν ὑπὲρ τούτων χρείαν ἀκρίβειαν μὴ ἀπειληφέναι, ὅση πρὸσ τὸ ἀτάραχον καὶ μακάριον ἡμῶν συντείνει. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 79:3)
  • περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐκλείψεων ἡλίου τε καὶ σελήνησ ἀκριβῶσ ἐπεσκέφθαι δοκοῦσι, καὶ προρρήσεισ περὶ τούτων ποιοῦνται, πάντα τὰ κατὰ μέροσ γινόμενα προλέγοντεσ ἀδιαπτώτωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 50 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. disappearance

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