elipsis
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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”).
Pronunciation
Noun
elipsis (plural elipsis-elipsis, first-person possessive elipsisku, second-person possessive elipsismu, third-person possessive elipsisnya)
- ellipsis:
- (typography) a mark consisting of (in English) three periods, historically or more formally with spaces in between, before, and after them, " . . . ", or, more recently, a single character, "…", used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible, or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues (e.g., 1, ..., 4 means 1, 2, 3, 4).
- (grammar) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
Further reading
- “elipsis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “falling short, omission”), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, to leave out”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-. Doublet of elipse.
Pronunciation
Noun
elipsis f (plural elipsis)
Related terms
Further reading
- “elipsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014