Meaning

2 senses
  1. The deliberate omission of something.

    (bewusste) Auslassung, (bewusste) Weglassung

    упуще́ниеupuščénije

    a deliberate act of omission

  2. The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

    See also: contraction, apheresis, apocope, syncope

    Elision

    эли́зияelízija

    елі́зіяelízija

    omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the omission of a letter or syllable:
Русский
By meaning 2
deliberate omission:
the omission of a letter or syllable:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
deliberate omission:
the omission of a letter or syllable:

Origin

From Latin ēlīsiō (“striking out, forcing out”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action

From Latin ēlīsiō (“striking out, forcing out”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from ēlīsus (“knocked out, forced out”), past participle of ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”) (whence elide), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).

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Forms

plural: elisions
Singularelision
Pluralelisions

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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