Ecthlipsis n. : The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

Ecthlipsis n. : The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

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ecthlipsis in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of ecthlipsis. Pronunciation of ecthlipsis. Translations of ecthlipsis. ecthlipsis synonyms, ecthlipsis antonyms. ... ecthlipsis (in Latin prosody) the elision of the last syllable of a word ending in m when the following ...