different between ellipsis vs eclipsis

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kl?ps?s/

Noun

eclipsis (countable and uncountable, plural eclipses)

1. (obsolete) An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase
2. A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted
3. (Irish grammar) A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations#Eclipsis.

Synonyms

• (mutation in Irish grammar): nasalization

Related terms

• eclipse

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Catalan

Verb

eclipsis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of eclipsar

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ékleipsis, “absence, abandoning”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?kli?p.sis/, [??kli?ps??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?klip.sis/, [??klipsis]

Noun

ecl?psis f (genitive ecl?psis); third declension

1. a solar eclipse

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Related terms

• eclipticus

Descendants

References

• eclipsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Occitan

Noun

eclipsis

1. plural of eclipsi