🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

éxtasis

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /eksˈta.siko/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ecstatic/ɪkˈstætɪk/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Los seguidores estaban estáticos ante el anuncio del artista."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.

    "She was ecstatic when she learned she had won the national poetry award."
  2. 2

    Involving an experience of mystic self-transcendence or religious rapture.

    "The dervishes performed their ecstatic dance beneath the night sky."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'ecstatic' originates from the Greek word 'ekstasis', meaning 'to stand outside oneself'. It evolved through Latin and Middle French before entering English in the late 16th century, where it retained the connotation of overwhelming joy or rapture.

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