"ἔλλειψις" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Noun

IPA: /él.leːp.sis/, /ˈel.lip.sis/, /ˈe.lip.sis/, /él.leːp.sis/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈel.lip.sis/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈel.lip.sis/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈel.lip.sis/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈe.lip.sis/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, omit”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix), the former from ἐν- (en-) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave behind”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|grc|ine-pro}}, {{langname|ine-pro}} Proto-Indo-European, {{word|grc|ine|h₁eǵʰs}}, {{root|grc|ine-pro|*leykʷ-}}, {{affix|grc|ἐλλείπω|-σις|pos2=verbal noun suffix|t1=to fall short, omit}} ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, omit”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix), {{affix|grc|ἐν-|λείπω|t2=to leave behind}} ἐν- (en-) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave behind”) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ἐλλείψεως|f|third|head=ἔλλειψῐς}} ἔλλειψῐς • (élleipsis) f (genitive ἐλλείψεως); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ἔλλειψῐς|ἐλλείψεως|form=F}} Forms: ἔλλειψῐς [canonical], élleipsis [romanization], ἐλλείψεως [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ἡ ἔλλειψῐς [nominative, singular], τὼ ἐλλείψει [dual, nominative], αἱ ἐλλείψεις [nominative, plural], τῆς ἐλλείψεως [genitive, singular], τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ἐλλείψεων [genitive, plural], τῇ ἐλλείψει [dative, singular], τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν [dative, dual], ταῖς ἐλλείψεσῐ [dative, plural], ἐλλείψεσῐν [dative, plural], taîs elleípsesi [dative, plural], taîs elleípsesin [dative, plural], τὴν ἔλλειψῐν [accusative, singular], τὼ ἐλλείψει [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς ἐλλείψεις [accusative, plural], ἔλλειψῐ [singular, vocative], ἐλλείψει [dual, vocative], ἐλλείψεις [plural, vocative]
  1. A falling short, defect
    Sense id: en-ἔλλειψις-grc-noun-5mkq5Kex Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 43 30 9 8 10 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 22 17 15 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-: 26 25 14 13 22 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις: 31 27 13 11 18 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 35 27 13 11 14
  2. (geometry) The conic section: an ellipse Categories (topical): Geometry
    Sense id: en-ἔλλειψις-grc-noun-ZylGReN8 Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 22 17 15 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-: 26 25 14 13 22 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις: 31 27 13 11 18 Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
  3. (grammar) An ellipsis (the omission of a word) Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-ἔλλειψις-grc-noun-WxLxtDdy Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 22 17 15 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-: 26 25 14 13 22 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις: 31 27 13 11 18 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  4. (grammar) The omission of a letter, elision Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-ἔλλειψις-grc-noun-bPu7xYFI Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 22 17 15 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-: 26 25 14 13 22 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις: 31 27 13 11 18 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  5. An eclipse
    Sense id: en-ἔλλειψις-grc-noun-CJms3b01 Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 24 22 17 15 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-: 26 25 14 13 22 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις: 31 27 13 11 18

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "huperbolḗ",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “defect”",
      "word": "ὑπερβολή"
    },
    {
      "roman": "huperokhḗ",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “defect”",
      "word": "ὑπεροχή"
    }
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          },
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        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: έλλειψη (élleipsi)"
    },
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          "args": {
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        {
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          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
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      "text": "→ Latin: ellīpsis (see there for further descendants)"
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      "form": "ἡ ἔλλειψῐς",
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      "form": "αἱ ἐλλείψεις",
      "roman": "hai elleípseis",
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        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "τῆς ἐλλείψεως",
      "roman": "tês elleípseōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν",
      "roman": "toîn elleipséoin",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν ἐλλείψεων",
      "roman": "tôn elleípseōn",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ ἐλλείψει",
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      ]
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      "form": "ταῖς ἐλλείψεσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἐλλείψεσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "taîs elleípsesi",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taîs elleípsesin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν ἔλλειψῐν",
      "roman": "tḕn élleipsin",
      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
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        "dual"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "τᾱ̀ς ἐλλείψεις",
      "roman": "tā̀s elleípseis",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ἔλλειψῐ",
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        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ἐλλείψει",
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  "lang_code": "grc",
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          "kind": "other",
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        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 102"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 356a"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 187a.17"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1042b.25"
        },
        {
          "english": "1911 translation by D. P. Chase\nI mean moral [virtue]; for it is this that is concerned with passions and actions, and in these there is excess, defect, and the intermediate.",
          "ref": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1106b.16",
          "roman": "légō dè tḕn ēthikḗn; haútē gár esti perì páthē kaì práxeis, en dè toútois éstin huperbolḕ kaì élleipsis kaì tò méson.",
          "text": "λέγω δὲ τὴν ἠθικήν· αὕτη γάρ ἐστι περὶ πάθη καὶ πράξεις, ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἔστιν ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἔλλειψις καὶ τὸ μέσον."
        }
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        "A falling short, defect"
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      ]
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            "Formal sciences",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "_dis": "26 25 14 13 22",
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        {
          "text": "262 BCE – 190 BCE, Apollonius of Perga, Conics 1.13"
        }
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        "(geometry) The conic section: an ellipse"
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      ]
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          "text": "250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 14.644a"
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          "text": "50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 117.19"
        }
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          "text": "495 CE – 570 CE, Olympiodorus the Younger, Commentary on the Aristotle's Meteorology 67.37"
        }
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        "An eclipse"
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    {
      "ipa": "/él.leːp.sis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.lip.sis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/él.leːp.sis/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.lip.sis/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἔλλειψις"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "huperbolḗ",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “defect”",
      "word": "ὑπερβολή"
    },
    {
      "roman": "huperokhḗ",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “defect”",
      "word": "ὑπεροχή"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
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    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leykʷ-",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁eǵʰs",
    "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἐν-",
    "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -σις",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "έλλειψη"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: έλλειψη (élleipsi)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: έλλειψη (élleipsi)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "ellīpsis",
            "bor": "yes"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: ellīpsis",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: ellīpsis (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European",
      "name": "langname"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine",
        "3": "h₁eǵʰs"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "word"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leykʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἐλλείπω",
        "3": "-σις",
        "pos2": "verbal noun suffix",
        "t1": "to fall short, omit"
      },
      "expansion": "ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, omit”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix)",
      "name": "affix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἐν-",
        "3": "λείπω",
        "t2": "to leave behind"
      },
      "expansion": "ἐν- (en-) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave behind”)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, omit”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix), the former from ἐν- (en-) + λείπω (leípō, “to leave behind”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ἔλλειψῐς",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "élleipsis",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἐλλείψεως",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ ἔλλειψῐς",
      "roman": "hē élleipsis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ἐλλείψει",
      "roman": "tṑ elleípsei",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ ἐλλείψεις",
      "roman": "hai elleípseis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς ἐλλείψεως",
      "roman": "tês elleípseōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν",
      "roman": "toîn elleipséoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν ἐλλείψεων",
      "roman": "tôn elleípseōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ ἐλλείψει",
      "roman": "têi elleípsei",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν",
      "roman": "toîn elleipséoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς ἐλλείψεσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἐλλείψεσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taîs elleípsesi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taîs elleípsesin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν ἔλλειψῐν",
      "roman": "tḕn élleipsin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ ἐλλείψει",
      "roman": "tṑ elleípsei",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς ἐλλείψεις",
      "roman": "tā̀s elleípseis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἔλλειψῐ",
      "roman": "élleipsi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἐλλείψει",
      "roman": "elleípsei",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἐλλείψεις",
      "roman": "elleípseis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ἐλλείψεως",
        "2": "f",
        "3": "third",
        "head": "ἔλλειψῐς"
      },
      "expansion": "ἔλλειψῐς • (élleipsis) f (genitive ἐλλείψεως); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ἔλλειψῐς",
        "2": "ἐλλείψεως",
        "form": "F"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 102"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 356a"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 187a.17"
        },
        {
          "text": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1042b.25"
        },
        {
          "english": "1911 translation by D. P. Chase\nI mean moral [virtue]; for it is this that is concerned with passions and actions, and in these there is excess, defect, and the intermediate.",
          "ref": "384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1106b.16",
          "roman": "légō dè tḕn ēthikḗn; haútē gár esti perì páthē kaì práxeis, en dè toútois éstin huperbolḕ kaì élleipsis kaì tò méson.",
          "text": "λέγω δὲ τὴν ἠθικήν· αὕτη γάρ ἐστι περὶ πάθη καὶ πράξεις, ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἔστιν ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἔλλειψις καὶ τὸ μέσον."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A falling short, defect"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "falling short",
          "fall short"
        ],
        [
          "defect",
          "defect"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Geometry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "262 BCE – 190 BCE, Apollonius of Perga, Conics 1.13"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The conic section: an ellipse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geometry",
          "geometry"
        ],
        [
          "conic section",
          "conic section"
        ],
        [
          "ellipse",
          "ellipse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geometry) The conic section: an ellipse"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geometry",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 14.644a"
        },
        {
          "text": "50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 117.19"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ellipsis (the omission of a word)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "ellipsis",
          "ellipsis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) An ellipsis (the omission of a word)"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "grc:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 56.28"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The omission of a letter, elision"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "omission",
          "omission"
        ],
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "elision",
          "elision"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) The omission of a letter, elision"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "495 CE – 570 CE, Olympiodorus the Younger, Commentary on the Aristotle's Meteorology 67.37"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An eclipse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eclipse",
          "eclipse"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/él.leːp.sis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.lip.sis/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/él.leːp.sis/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈel.lip.sis/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.lip.sis/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἔλλειψις"
}

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