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) 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 [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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 === IPA(key): /eˈlibsis/ [eˈliβ̞.sis] Rhymes: -ibsis Syllabification: e‧lip‧sis === Noun === elipsis f (plural elipsis) (grammar, rhetoric) ellipsis ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “elipsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025