elision
Appearance
See also: élision
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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-”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]elision (plural elisions)
- The deliberate omission of something.
- (linguistics) 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
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]deliberate omission
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the omission of a letter or syllable
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References
[edit]- Noah Webster (1828), “elision”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Noun
[edit]elision
