ellipsis
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English
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.
Pronunciation
Noun
ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)
- (typography, mathematics) A mark consisting of multiple periods (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.
- Synonyms: (colloquial) dot dot dot, suspension dots, suspension points
- The ellipsis 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.
- The ellipsis in 0.333... means that the number is a repeating decimal, having threes that go on forever.
- (grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
- (film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
- (obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
typographic mark
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omission of word or phrase
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See also
- apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
- curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
- square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
- ellipsis ( … )
- exclamation mark ( ! )
- fraction slash ( ⁄ )
- guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
- hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
- interpunct ( · )
- interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
- brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
- full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( ] [ )
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ellīpsis f (genitive ellīpsis); third declension
- ellipsis
- ellipse
- 1644, René Descartes, Principia philosophiae:
- Unde sequitur ambitum ABCD non esse circulum perfectum, sed magis ad ellipsis figuram accedere
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Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
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| Nominative | ellīpsis | ellīpsēs |
| Genitive | ellīpsis | ellīpsium |
| Dative | ellīpsī | ellīpsibus |
| Accusative | ellīpsin ellīpsim |
ellīpsēs ellīpsīs |
| Ablative | ellīpsī | ellīpsibus |
| Vocative | ellīpsis | ellīpsēs |
Descendants
References
- “ellipsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ellipsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.