ecstasis

English

Etymology 1

Noun

ecstasis (countable and uncountable, plural ecstases)

1. Alternative form of ekstasis.

Etymology 2

Noun

ecstasis

1. (prosody) Synonym of paragoge.
   • 1811, Peter Wilson, Introduction to Greek Prosody, page 160:

     The insertion of the i by poetic ecstasis furnishes the syllable necessary to complete the number of feet, […]

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.sta.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.sta.s̬is]

Noun

ecstasis f (genitive ecstasis or ecstaseōs or ecstasios); third declension

1. ecstasy, trance, rapture

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	ecstasis	ecstasēs ecstaseis
genitive	ecstasis ecstaseōs ecstasios	ecstasium
dative	ecstasī	ecstasibus
accusative	ecstasim ecstasin ecstasem1	ecstasēs ecstasīs
ablative	ecstasī ecstase1	ecstasibus
vocative	ecstasis ecstasi	ecstasēs ecstaseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

References

• “ecstasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "ecstasis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ecstasis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.