different between ellipsis vs aposiopesis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?ps?s/

Noun

ellipsis (countable and uncountable, plural ellipses)

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 “…” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.

   Synonyms: (colloquial) dot dot dot, suspension dots, suspension points

   • 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.

3. (grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
4. (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.

5. (obsolete, geometry) An ellipse.

Translations

See also

Punctuation

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (élleipsis, “omission”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /el?li?p.sis/, [?l??l?i?ps??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /el?lip.sis/, [?l?lipsis]

Noun

ell?psis f (genitive ell?psis); 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

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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

English

Etymology

From Latin aposiopesis, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (aposi?p?sis), from ????????? (aposi?pá?, “be silent”), from ??? (apó, “off, from”) + ?????? (si?pá?, “to be silent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æp?sa???pi?s?s/
• Hyphenation: apo?si?o?pe?sis

Noun

aposiopesis (countable and uncountable, plural aposiopeses)

1. (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

   Synonym: (obsolete) reticence

   • 1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy, London: George Routledge & Sons, OCLC 939632162; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1957, OCLC 855435111, page 164:

     “Have fire in this garret before night or—” / He stopped because he could not go on. It was an aposiopesis of the purest kind.

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Translations

See also

• adynaton
• anapodoton
• ellipsis
• or else

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Further reading

• aposiopesis at OneLook Dictionary Search
• aposiopesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia