ecthlipsis
Plural: ecthlipses
Noun
- The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
- In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκθλιψις (ékthlipsis, “a squeezing out”), from ἐκθλίβω (ekthlíbō, “to squeeze out”), from θλίβω (thlíbō, “to squeeze; to compress”).
Scrabble Score: 17
ecthlipsis: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionaryecthlipsis: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
ecthlipsis: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 0
ecthlipsis: not valid in Words With Friends