elipsis

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, omission).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ˈlɪp.sɪs/
  • Rhymes: -sɪs
  • Hyphenation: e‧lip‧sis

Noun

elipsis (plural elipsis-elipsis, first-person possessive elipsisku, second-person possessive elipsismu, third-person possessive elipsisnya)

  1. ellipsis:
    1. (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).
    2. (grammar) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.

Further reading

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

  • IPA(key): /eˈlibsis/ [eˈliβ̞.sis]
  • Rhymes: -ibsis
  • Syllabification: e‧lip‧sis

Noun

elipsis f (plural elipsis)

  1. (grammar, rhetoric) ellipsis

Further reading

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