different between ellipsis vs dayee

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 1

Alternative forms

• day-ee

Noun

dayee (uncountable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of day.

Interjection

dayee

1. (Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day.

   • “Day-ee, Jasper!” replied 'Un. “Day-ee, Silas! How?s things?”

Synonyms

• g'day

Etymology 2

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Noun

dayee (plural dayees)

1. (rare, India) midwife
   • 1855, North-Western Provinces, India, Selections from the Records of Government, Volume 3, page 184,

     The custom now actually and thoroughly established, and daily practised in these villages, is the following : — On the occasion of a birth in a Thakoor family, the village dayee is summoned, and after her services have been completed, she reports the occurrence to her relative, the bullahur ; he informs the chowkeedar, who causes the necessary entry to be made in the putwaree?s diary, and, if the birth be of a girl, reports the event to the thannah.