Noun: elipsis
Gender: f
Hyphenation: e‧lip‧sis
| Singular f | elipsis |
| Plural f | elipsis |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like elipsis
espongiosis,
cromotripsis,
carcinomatosis,
tripanosomiasis,
sepsis,
polineuritis,
hiperqueratosis,
trombopoyesis,
catábasis,
linfangioleiomiomatosis,
glucólisis,
capsulitis,
pericondritis,
catálisis,
rinoconjuntivitis,
prolepsis,
conjuntivitis,
neumoconiosis,
psoriasis,
fascitis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed 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. See: Latin Nouns '
ellīpsis', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔλλειψις'.
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