ellipsis

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

140 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: shumëpikësh — typographic mark
• Arabic: حَذْف (ḥaḏf) — typographic mark
• Arabic: إِضْمَار (ʔiḍmār) — typographic mark
• Armenian: կախման կետեր (kaxman keter) — typographic mark
• Azerbaijani: üç nöqtə — typographic mark
• Belarusian: шматкро́п'е (šmatkrópʺje) — typographic mark
• Belarusian: кро́пкі (krópki) — typographic mark
• Bulgarian: многото́чие (mnogotóčie) — typographic mark
• Burmese: ပေယျာလ (peyyala.) — typographic mark
• Burmese: စာချန်မှတ် (cahkyanhmat) — typographic mark
• Catalan: punts suspensius — typographic mark
• Chinese Mandarin: 刪節號 /删节号 (shānjiéhào) — typographic mark
• Chinese Mandarin: 省略號 /省略号 (shěnglüèhào) — typographic mark
• Chinese Mandarin: ...... — typographic mark
• Czech: trojtečka — typographic mark
• Danish: ellipse — typographic mark
• Danish: udeladelsesprikker — typographic mark
• Dutch: beletselteken — typographic mark
• Dutch: doorlooppuntjes — typographic mark
• Dutch: ellips — typographic mark
• Esperanto: tripunkto — typographic mark
• Estonian: punkt punkt punkt — typographic mark
• Estonian: kolm punkti — typographic mark
• Estonian: mõttepunktid — typographic mark
• Finnish: ellipsi — typographic mark
• Finnish: kolme pistettä — typographic mark
• French: points de suspension — typographic mark
• French: ellipse — typographic mark
• Georgian: მრავალწერტილი (mravalc̣erṭili) — typographic mark
• German: Auslassungspunkte — typographic mark
• German: drei Punkte — typographic mark
• Greek: αποσιωπητικά (aposiopitiká) — typographic mark
• Hungarian: három pont — typographic mark
• Hungarian: hárompont-jel — typographic mark
• Hungarian: hármaspont — typographic mark
• Icelandic: úrfellingarmerki — typographic mark
• Indonesian: tanda elipsis — typographic mark
• Irish: comhartha focalbhá — typographic mark
• Italian: punti di sospensione — typographic mark
• Italian: tre puntini — typographic mark
• Japanese: 省略記号 (shōryaku kigō) — typographic mark
• Japanese: 省略 (shōryaku) — typographic mark
• Japanese: リーダー (rīdā) — typographic mark
• Japanese: ...... — typographic mark
• Japanese: ... — typographic mark
• Kalmyk: олн цег (oln tseg) — typographic mark
• Kazakh: көп нүкте (köp nükte) — typographic mark
• Khmer: ចំណុចបី (cɑmnocbəy) — typographic mark
• Korean: 줄임표 (jurimpyo) — typographic mark
• Korean: 점점점 (jeomjeomjeom) — typographic mark
• Korean: 말줄임표 (maljurimpyo) — typographic mark
• Kyrgyz: көп чекит (köp cekit) — typographic mark
• Lao: ຈຸດສາມຈຸດ (chut sām chut) — typographic mark
• Latvian: daudzpunkte — typographic mark
• Lithuanian: daugtaškis — typographic mark
• Macedonian: неколку точки (nekolku točki) — typographic mark
• Macedonian: три точки (tri točki) — typographic mark
• Malay: tanda elipsis — typographic mark
• Mongolian: цуваа цэг (cuvaa ceg) — typographic mark
• Norwegian Bokmål: ellipse — typographic mark
• Norwegian Bokmål: utelatelsestegn — typographic mark
• Norwegian Bokmål: ellipsetegn — typographic mark
• Norwegian Bokmål: tre prikker — typographic mark
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ellipse — typographic mark
• Iranian Persian: سِهنُقْطِه (se-noġte) — typographic mark
• Polish: wielokropek — typographic mark
• Portuguese: reticências — typographic mark
• Portuguese: pontos de reticência — typographic mark
• Portuguese: três pontos — typographic mark
• Romanian: puncte de suspensie — typographic mark
• Russian: многото́чие (mnogotóčije) — typographic mark
• Russian: троето́чие (trojetóčije) — typographic mark
• Serbo-Croatian: тро̀точка — typographic mark
• Serbo-Croatian: троточје — typographic mark
• Serbo-Croatian: три тачке — typographic mark
• Serbo-Croatian: tròtočka — typographic mark
• Serbo-Croatian: trotočje — typographic mark
• Serbo-Croatian: tri tačke — typographic mark
• Slovak: tri bodky — typographic mark
• Slovene: tripičje — typographic mark
• Spanish: puntos suspensivos — typographic mark
• Swedish: uteslutningstecken — typographic mark
• Swedish: utelämningstecken — typographic mark
• Swedish: ellips — typographic mark
• Swedish: tre punkter — typographic mark
• Tajik: бисёрнуқта (bisyornuqta) — typographic mark
• Tajik: нуқтаҳо (nuqtaho) — typographic mark
• Tajik: сенуқта (senuqta) — typographic mark
• Thai: จุดไข่ปลา (jùt-kài-bplaa) — typographic mark
• Thai: จุดสามจุด — typographic mark
• Turkish: üç nokta — typographic mark
• Ukrainian: крапки́ (krapký) — typographic mark
• Ukrainian: три кра́пки (try krápky) — typographic mark
• Uyghur: كۆپ چېكىت (köp chëkit) — typographic mark
• Uzbek: koʻp nuqta — typographic mark
• Vietnamese: dấu ba chấm — typographic mark
• Vietnamese: dấu chấm lửng — typographic mark
• Welsh: atalnodau llawn — typographic mark
• Albanian: elipsë — omission of word or phrase
• Breton: berrdro — omission of word or phrase
• Bulgarian: пропускане на дума (propuskane na duma) — omission of word or phrase
• Catalan: el·lipsi — omission of word or phrase
• Czech: výpustka — omission of word or phrase
• Czech: elipsa — omission of word or phrase
• Danish: ellipse — omission of word or phrase
• Danish: udeladelse — omission of word or phrase
• Dutch: ellips — omission of word or phrase
• Dutch: weglating — omission of word or phrase
• Estonian: väljajätt — omission of word or phrase
• Estonian: ellips — omission of word or phrase
• Finnish: sananheitto — omission of word or phrase
• Finnish: ellipsi — omission of word or phrase
• French: ellipse — omission of word or phrase
• German: Ellipse — omission of word or phrase
• Greek: έλλειψη (élleipsi) — omission of word or phrase
• Hebrew: אֵלִיפְּסָה (elípsa) — omission of word or phrase
• Hebrew: הֶשְׁמֵט (heshmét) — omission of word or phrase
• Hungarian: szó vagy mondatrész kihagyása/elhagyása — omission of word or phrase
• Hungarian: szóelhagyás — omission of word or phrase
• Hungarian: ellipszis — omission of word or phrase
• Hungarian: jelentéstapadás — omission of word or phrase
• Irish: focalbhá — omission of word or phrase
• Italian: ellissi — omission of word or phrase
• Japanese: 省略 — omission of word or phrase
• Macedonian: испуштање (ispuštanje) — omission of word or phrase
• Māori: kupu mahue — omission of word or phrase
• Norwegian Bokmål: ellipse — omission of word or phrase
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ellipse — omission of word or phrase
• Polish: wyrzutnia — omission of word or phrase
• Polish: elipsa — omission of word or phrase
• Portuguese: elipse — omission of word or phrase
• Romanian: elipsă — omission of word or phrase
• Russian: опуще́ние (opuščénije) — omission of word or phrase
• Russian: про́пуск (própusk) — omission of word or phrase
• Russian: э́ллипсис (éllipsis) — omission of word or phrase
• Spanish: elipsis — omission of word or phrase
• Thai: การละความ — omission of word or phrase
• Turkish: eksilti — omission of word or phrase
• Turkish: eksiltim — omission of word or phrase
• Turkish: elips — omission of word or phrase