elipsis

From Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “falling short, omission”), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, to leave out”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-. Doublet of elipse.

• IPA^(key): /eˈlibsis/ [eˈliβ̞.sis]
• Rhymes: -ibsis
• Syllabification: e‧lip‧sis

elipsis f (plural elipsis)

1. (grammar, rhetoric) ellipsis

• “elipsis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014