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ecthlipses

ecthlipses is the plural of ecthlipsis.

Meaning of ecthlipsis

Noun

ecthlipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ecthlipses)

  1. (rhetoric) The dropping out or suppression of a consonant from a word, with or without a vowel.
    1. (rhetoric) In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

Questions about ecthlipses

What is ecthlipses the plural of?
Ecthlipses is the plural of ecthlipsis.

Words near ecthlipses in the dictionary

  1. ectexine
  2. ectexines
  3. ecthesis
  4. ecthetic
  5. ecthetically
  6. ecthlipses
  7. ecthlipsis
  8. ecthorea
  9. ecthoreum
  10. ECtHR
  11. ecthronym

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