verb
Meaning 1
To leave out or omit (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
elide
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪˈlaɪd/
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rhymes with -aɪd
verb
Meaning 2
To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
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verb
Meaning 3
To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 4
leave or strike out
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
Narrower terms: drop
History
Etymology
From Latin ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa) — to leave out or omit
- Arabic: حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) — to leave out or omit
- Asturian: omitir — to leave out or omit
- Bulgarian: премълчавам (premǎlčavam) — to leave out or omit
- Catalan: ometre — to leave out or omit
- Chinese Mandarin: 省略 (shěnglüè) — to leave out or omit
- Czech: vynechat — to leave out or omit
- Czech: opominout — to leave out or omit
- Czech: ignorovat — to leave out or omit
- Danish: udelade — to leave out or omit
- Dutch: weglaten — to leave out or omit
- Finnish: jättää pois — to leave out or omit
- French: omettre — to leave out or omit
- Galician: omitir — to leave out or omit
- Georgian: გამოტოვება (gamoṭoveba) — to leave out or omit
- German: weglassen — to leave out or omit
- German: auslassen — to leave out or omit
- Greek: παραλείπω (paraleípo) — to leave out or omit
- Hungarian: kihagy — to leave out or omit
- Italian: omettere — to leave out or omit
- Japanese: 省略する (shōryaku suru) — to leave out or omit
- Japanese: 抜かす (nukasu) — to leave out or omit
- Māori: whakamutu — to leave out or omit
- Māori: whāmutu — to leave out or omit
- Māori: kape — to leave out or omit
- Māori: tīpoka — to leave out or omit
- Norwegian: unnta — to leave out or omit
- Norwegian: hoppe over — to leave out or omit
- Norwegian Bokmål: utelate — to leave out or omit
- Polish: pominąć — to leave out or omit
- Polish: pomijać — to leave out or omit
- Polish: opuszczać — to leave out or omit
- Polish: opuścić — to leave out or omit
- Portuguese: omitir — to leave out or omit
- Romanian: omite — to leave out or omit
- Romanian: a lăsa la o parte — to leave out or omit
- Russian: пропуска́ть (propuskátʹ) — to leave out or omit
- Russian: пропусти́ть (propustítʹ) — to leave out or omit
- Russian: не включа́ть (ne vključátʹ) — to leave out or omit
- Russian: не включи́ть (ne vključítʹ) — to leave out or omit
- Spanish: omitir — to leave out or omit
- Spanish: dejar de lado — to leave out or omit
- Swedish: utelämna — to leave out or omit
- Turkish: hariç bırakmak — to leave out or omit
- Turkish: ihmal etmek — to leave out or omit
- Arabic: أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa) — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Arabic: حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa) — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Czech: vypustit — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Czech: vynechat — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Dutch: elideren — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Dutch: verbinden — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- French: élider — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Italian: elidere — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Portuguese: comer sense 5 — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Serbo-Croatian: елиди́рати — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Serbo-Croatian: elidírati — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Spanish: elidir — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Swedish: elidera — to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable
- Dutch: samenvoegen — to conflate
- Dutch: verbinden — to conflate
- Estonian: kokku sulatama — to conflate
- Finnish: yhdistää — to conflate
- French: amalgamer — to conflate
- French: confondre — to conflate
- German: verbinden — to conflate
- German: vereinigen — to conflate
- German: verschmelzen — to conflate
- Japanese: 融合する (yūgō suru) — to conflate
- Polish: połączyć — to conflate
- Portuguese: unir — to conflate
- Portuguese: amalgamar — to conflate
- Romanian: confunda — to conflate
- Russian: соединя́ть (sojedinjátʹ) — to conflate
- Russian: объединя́ть (obʺjedinjátʹ) — to conflate
- Serbo-Croatian: сједи́нити — to conflate
- Serbo-Croatian: sjedíniti — to conflate
- Spanish: amalgamar — to conflate
- Spanish: confundir — to conflate
- Spanish: unir — to conflate
- Turkish: birleştirmek — to conflate