extasis

See also: éxtasis

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis).

Noun

extasis f (genitive extasis or extaseōs or extasios); third declension

1. rapture, ecstasy, trance
2. terror, amazement

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	extasis	extasēs extaseis
genitive	extasis extaseōs extasios	extasium
dative	extasī	extasibus
accusative	extasim extasin extasem1	extasēs extasīs
ablative	extasī extase1	extasibus
vocative	extasis extasi	extasēs extaseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• English: ecstasy
• French: extase
• Italian: estasi
• Piedmontese: éstasi
• Portuguese: êxtase
• Russian: экстаз (ekstaz)
• Spanish: éxtasis

References

• “extasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• extasis 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)
• extasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.