apocalypse

See also: Apocalypse

English

Etymology

From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”), literally meaning "uncovering", from ἀπό (apó, “after”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “I cover”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈpɒkəlɪps/
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈpɑkəlɪps/
  • Hyphenation: a‧poc‧a‧lypse

Noun

apocalypse (plural apocalypses)

  1. A revelation. [from 14th c.]
    The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
  2. (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction. [from 19th c.]
  3. A disaster; a cataclysmic event. [from 19th c.]
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 699:
      The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse.

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References
  • “apocalypse” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

French

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Noun

apocalypse f (plural apocalypses)

  1. apocalypse (disaster)

Latin

Noun

apocalypse

  1. ablative singular of apocalypsis
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