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- 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”.)
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Unadapted borrowing fromLatinellīpsis, fromAncient Greekἔλλειψις(élleipsis,“omission”).Doublet ofellipse.
- IPA(key): /ɪˈlɪp.sɪs/
- Hyphenation:el‧lip‧sis
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, ..., 8, 9 means that the numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 are not explicitly included, but are considered to be 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.
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:punktpunktpunkt,kolmpunkti
- Finnish:ellipsi (fi),kolme pistettä (fi)
- French:points de suspension (fr) m
- German:Auslassungspunkte (de) m pl
- Greek:αποσιωπητικά (el) n pl(aposiopitiká)
- Hungarian:hárompont,hárompont-jel,hármaspont (hu)
- Icelandic:úrfellingarmerki n
- Irish:comhartha focalbhá m
- Italian:puntini puntini puntini
- Japanese:省略記号(shōryaku kigō),省略 (ja)(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
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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:szóvagymondatrészkihagyása/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),про́пуск (ru) m(própusk),э́ллипсис (ru) m(éllipsis)
- Spanish:elipsis (es) f
- Thai:การละความ (th)
- Turkish:eksilti (tr),eksiltim,elips (tr)
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Punctuation
FromAncient Greekἔλλειψις(élleipsis,“omission”).
ellīpsis f (genitiveellīpsis);third declension
- ellipsis
- ellipse
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
- “ellipsis”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ellipsis”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
