Significat (Anglès)

  1. A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.
  2. A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.
  3. The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
  4. The Book of Revelation.

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/əˈpɒkəlɪps/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From Middle English apocalips, from Latin apocalypsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποκάλυψις (apokálupsis, “revelation”, literally “uncovering”), from ἀπό (apó, “back, away from”) and καλύπτω (kalúptō, “I cover”). The sense evolution to "catastrophe, end of the world" stems from the depiction of such events in the biblical Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse of (i.e. Revelation to) John.

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