different between mutation vs eclipsis

English

Alternative forms

• mutat. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Late 14th century, from Latin mutationem, both directly and via Old French mutacion, form of Latin m?t? (“I move, I change, I vary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

mutation (countable and uncountable, plural mutations)

1. Any alteration or change.
2. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
3. A mutant.
4. (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
5. (rare, collective noun) A group of thrushes.

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Anagrams

• Mount Tai

French

Etymology

From Middle French mutation, from Old French mutacion, borrowed from Latin mutatio, mutationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ta.sj??/

Noun

mutation f (plural mutations)

1. substitution
2. mutation

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Descendants

• ? Turkish: mutasyon

Further reading

• “mutation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mutacion, borrowed from Latin mutatio, mutationem.

Noun

mutation f (plural mutations)

1. change, alteration, mutation

Related terms

• muter

Descendants

• French: mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kl?ps?s/

Noun

eclipsis (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)

1. (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase
2. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted
3. (Irish grammar) 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.

Synonyms

• (mutation in Irish grammar): nasalization

Related terms

• eclipse

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Catalan

Verb

eclipsis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of eclipsar

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?kli?p.sis/, [??kli?ps??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?klip.sis/, [??klipsis]

Noun

ecl?psis f (genitive ecl?psis); third declension

1. a solar eclipse

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

• eclipticus

Descendants

References

• eclipsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Occitan

Noun

eclipsis

1. plural of eclipsi