ecstasis

English

ecstasis (countable and uncountable, plural ecstases)

ecstasis

(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, […]

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

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

Case	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.

“ecstasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ecstasis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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.

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