different between voiceless vs eclipsis

English

Etymology

voice +? -less

Adjective

voiceless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
   • 1994, Loreena McKennitt, The Mystic's Dream

     A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.

2. (figuratively) Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
3. (phonetics, of a consonant) Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd. Examples: [t], [s], [f].

Synonyms

• inaudible
• silent
• unvoiced

Antonyms

• audible
• vocal
• voiced

Translations

See also

• speechless

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