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Examples (grammar)
He is faster than she. (Here, a trailing “is fast” is omitted, grammatically required, and implied.) She went home, so I did, too. (Did stands for “did go home”.)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing fromLatinellīpsis, fromAncient Greekἔλλειψις(élleipsis,“omission”).Doublet ofellipse.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪpsɪs/
Audio(US): (file)

Noun

ellipsis (countable anduncountable,pluralellipses)

(typography, mathematics) Amark consisting ofmultiplefull stops (with or without spaces), used toindicateomitted,missing, orillegiblewords; or (in mathematics) that apatterncontinues.
Synonyms:(colloquial)dot dot dot,suspension dots,suspension points
Theellipsis in 1, 2, 3, ..., 7, 8 means that the numbers 4, 5, and 6 are not explicitly included, but are considered to be a part of the pattern.
Theellipsis in 0.333... means that the number is a repeating decimal, having threes that go on forever.
- 2006, Danielle Corsetto,Girls with Slingshots: 114‎^[1]:
  CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
  HAZEL: Wow. I've never despised anellipsis so much in my life.
(grammar, rhetoric) Theomission of aword orphrase that can beinferred from thecontext.
(film) Theomission ofscenes in afilm that do notadvance theplot.
- 2002, David Blanke,The 1910s: 219‎^[2]:
  It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses" by filmmakers.
(obsolete, geometry) Anellipse.

Derived terms

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Translations

typographic mark

Albanian:shumëpikësh (sq) m
Arabic:حَذْف m(ḥaḏf),إِضْمَار m(ʔiḍmār)
Belarusian:шматкро́п'е n(šmatkrópʺje),кро́пкі f pl(krópki)
Bulgarian:многото́чие n(mnogotóčie)
Burmese:ပေယျာလ (my)(peyyala.),စာချန်မှတ် (my)(cahkyanhmat)
Catalan:punts suspensius m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin:……,刪節號 /删节号 (zh)(shānjiéhào),省略號 /省略号 (zh)(shěnglüèhào)
Czech:trojtečka f
Danish:ellipse c
Dutch:beletselteken (nl) n,doorlooppuntjes pl,ellips (nl) f
Esperanto:tripunkto
Estonian:punkt punkt punkt,kolm punkti
Finnish:ellipsi (fi),kolme pistettä (fi)
French:points de suspension (fr) m
German:Auslassungspunkte (de) m pl
Greek:αποσιωπητικά (el) n pl(aposiopitiká)
Hungarian:három pont,hárompont-jel,hármaspont (hu)
Icelandic:úrfellingarmerki n
Irish:comhartha focalbhá m
Italian:puntini puntini puntini
Japanese:… (ja),…… (ja),省略記号(しょうりゃくきごう, shōryaku kigō),省略 (ja)(しょうりゃく, shōryaku),リーダー (ja)(rīdā)
Kalmyk:олн цег(oln tseg)
Kazakh:көп нүкте(köp nükte)
Korean:줄임표(jurimpyo)
Latvian:daudzpunkte f
Lithuanian:daugtaškis (lt) m
Macedonian:неколку точки pl(nekolku točki),три точки f pl(tri točki)
Mongolian:цуваа цэг(cuvaa ceg)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:ellipse (no) m
Nynorsk:ellipse m
Persian:سه‌نقطه(se-noqte)
Polish:wielokropek (pl) m
Portuguese:reticências (pt) f pl,pontos de reticência (pt) m pl,três pontos m pl
Romanian:puncte de suspensie (ro) n pl
Russian:многото́чие (ru) n(mnogotóčije),троето́чие (ru) n(trojetóčije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman:trotočka (sh) f,trotočje n
Slovak:tri bodky f pl
Slovene:tripičje n
Spanish:puntos suspensivos (es) m pl
Thai:จุดไข่ปลา (th)(jùt-kài-bplaa)
Ukrainian:крапки́ f pl(krapký)
Uyghur:كۆپ چېكىت(köp chëkit)
Vietnamese:dấu ba chấm (vi) (𧿫𠀧點)
Welsh:atalnodau llawn m pl

omission of word or phrase

Albanian:elipsë (sq) f
Breton:berrdro (br) f
Bulgarian:пропускане надума n(propuskane na duma)
Catalan:el·lipsi (ca) f
Czech:výpustka f,elipsa (cs) f
Danish:ellipse c,udeladelse c
Dutch:ellips (nl) f,weglating (nl) f
Estonian:väljajätt,ellips
Finnish:sananheitto (fi),ellipsi (fi)
French:ellipse (fr) f
German:Ellipse (de) f
Greek:έλλειψη (el) f(élleipsi)
Hebrew:אֵלִיפְּסָה (he) f(elípsa),הֶשְׁמֵט m(heshmét)
Hungarian:szó vagy mondatrész kihagyása/elhagyása,szóelhagyás,ellipszis (hu),(as a way of forming a new lexeme)jelentéstapadás (hu)
Irish:focalbhá m
Italian:ellissi (it) f
Macedonian:испуштање n(ispuštanje)
Maori:kupu mahue
Norwegian:
Bokmål:ellipse (no) m
Nynorsk:ellipse m
Polish:wyrzutnia (pl) f,elipsa (pl) f
Portuguese:elipse (pt) f
Romanian:elipsă (ro) f
Russian:опуще́ние (ru) n(opuščénije),э́ллипсис (ru) m(éllipsis)
Spanish:elipsis (es) f
Thai:การละความ (th)

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
curly brackets orbraces(US) ( { } )
square brackets orbrackets(US) ( [ ] )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
ellipsis ( … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
fraction slash ( ⁄ )
guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
interpunct ( · )
interrobang(rare) ( ‽ )
brackets orparentheses(US, Canada) ( ( ) )
full stop orperiod(US, Canada) ( . )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks(formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
quotation marks(informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
semicolon ( ; )
slash orstroke(UK) ( / )
space ( ] [ )

Latin

Etymology

FromAncient Greekἔλλειψις(élleipsis,“omission”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /elˈliːp.sis/,[ɛlˈlʲiːps̠ɪs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /elˈlip.sis/,[elˈlipsis]

Noun

ellīpsis f (genitiveellīpsis);third declension

ellipsis
ellipse
- 1644,René Descartes,Principia philosophiae:
  Unde sequitur ambitum ABCD non esse circulum perfectum, sed magis adellipsis figuram accedere
  (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	ellīpsis	ellīpsēs
genitive	ellīpsis	ellīpsium
dative	ellīpsī	ellīpsibus
accusative	ellīpsin ellīpsim	ellīpsēs ellīpsīs
ablative	ellīpsī	ellīpsibus
vocative	ellīpsis	ellīpsēs

Descendants

→ Catalan:el·lipse,el·lipsi
→ English:ellipsis
→ French:ellipse
→ Italian:ellissi,ellisse

References

“ellipsis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ellipsis inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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