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語源

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.

発音

• IPA: /ɪˈlɪp.sɪs/
• ハイフネーション: el‧lip‧sis

名詞

ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)

1. (typography, mathematics) A mark consisting of multiple full stops (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, ..., 8, 9 means that the numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 are not explicitly included, but are considered to be part of the pattern.

   The ellipsis in 0.333... means that the number is a repeating decimal, having threes that go on forever.

   • 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.

2. (grammar, linguistics, rhetoric) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
3. (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.

4. (obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.

派生語

関連する語

参考

• eclipsis
• ecthlipsis

Punctuation

Further reading

• “ellipsis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “ellipsis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɛlˈliːp.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [elˈlip.sis]

名詞

ellīpsis f (genitive ellīpsis); third declension

1. ellipsis
2. ellipse
   • 1644, René Descartes, Principia philosophiae:

     Unde sequitur ambitum ABCD non esse circulum perfectum, sed magis ad ellipsis figuram accedere

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生した語

参照

• “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.