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Where did the word eclipse originate(come from) and what dose it mean?
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Where did the word eclipse originate(come from) and what dose it mean?

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the word eclipse comes from the Greek for "abandonment" and it means the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth.
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if im correct it originated from greek

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