ellipsis

English

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 “went home”.)

From Latin ellipsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.

ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)

(typography) A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, nowadays a single character “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.
Synonym: dot dot dot
- 2006, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 114
  CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
  
  HAZEL: Wow. I’ve never despised an ellipsis so much in my life.
(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.
- 2002, David Blanke, The 1910s: 219
  It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses" by filmmakers.
(obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.

typographic mark

Arabic: حَذْف‎ m (ḥaḏf), إِضْمَار‎ m (ʾiḍmār)
Belarusian: шматкро́п'е n (šmatkrópʺje), кро́пкі f pl (krópki)
Bulgarian: многото́чие n (mnogotóčie)
Catalan: punts suspensius m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: ……, 刪節號 (zh), 删节号 (zh) (shānjiéhào), 省略號 (zh), 省略号 (zh) (shěnglüèhào)
Czech: trojtečka f
Danish: ellipse c
Dutch: beletselteken n, doorlooppuntjes pl, ellips (nl) f
Esperanto: tripunkto
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
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)

omission of word or phrase

From Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”)

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

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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

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