In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.
Source: tatoeba (1336028)
Ellipsis
//ɪˈlɪp.sɪs//
Synonyms for "ellipsis" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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3 entrieshas context
5 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
103 translations across 48 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- elipsë noun (omission of word or phrase)
- shumëpikësh noun (typographic mark)
Arabic
2 entries- إِضْمَار noun (typographic mark)
- حَذْف noun (typographic mark)
Belarusian
2 entries- кро́пкі noun (typographic mark)
- шматкро́п'е noun (typographic mark)
Breton
1 entries- berrdro noun (omission of word or phrase)
Bulgarian
2 entries- многото́чие noun (typographic mark)
- пропускане на дума noun (omission of word or phrase)
Burmese
2 entries- စာချန်မှတ် noun (typographic mark)
- ပေယျာလ noun (typographic mark)
Catalan
2 entries- el·lipsi noun (omission of word or phrase)
- punts suspensius noun (typographic mark)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- …… noun (typographic mark)
- 刪節號 /删节号 noun (typographic mark)
- 省略號 /省略号 noun (typographic mark)
Czech
3 entries- elipsa noun (omission of word or phrase)
- trojtečka noun (typographic mark)
- výpustka noun (omission of word or phrase)
Danish
3 entries- ellipse noun (typographic mark)
- ellipse noun (omission of word or phrase)
- udeladelse noun (omission of word or phrase)
Dutch
4 entries- beletselteken noun (typographic mark)
- doorlooppuntjes noun (typographic mark)
- ellips noun (typographic mark)
- ellips noun (omission of word or phrase)
Esperanto
1 entries- tripunkto noun (typographic mark)
Estonian
4 entries- ellips noun (omission of word or phrase)
- kolm punkti noun (typographic mark)
- punkt punkt punkt noun (typographic mark)
- väljajätt noun (omission of word or phrase)
Finnish
4 entries- ellipsi noun (typographic mark)
- ellipsi noun (omission of word or phrase)
- kolme pistettä noun (typographic mark)
- sananheitto noun (omission of word or phrase)
French
2 entries- ellipse noun (omission of word or phrase)
- points de suspension noun (typographic mark)
German
2 entries- Auslassungspunkte noun (typographic mark)
- Ellipse noun (omission of word or phrase)
Greek
2 entries- έλλειψη noun (omission of word or phrase)
- αποσιωπητικά noun (typographic mark)
Hebrew
2 entries- אֵלִיפְּסָה noun (omission of word or phrase)
- הֶשְׁמֵט noun (omission of word or phrase)
Hungarian
4 entries- ellipszis noun (omission of word or phrase)
- hármaspont noun (typographic mark)
- három pont noun (typographic mark)
- hárompont-jel noun (typographic mark)
Icelandic
1 entries- úrfellingarmerki noun (typographic mark)
Irish
2 entries- comhartha focalbhá noun (typographic mark)
- focalbhá noun (omission of word or phrase)
Italian
2 entries- ellissi noun (omission of word or phrase)
- puntini puntini puntini noun (typographic mark)
Japanese
3 entries- リーダー noun (typographic mark)
- 省略 noun (typographic mark)
- 省略記号 noun (typographic mark)
Kalmyk
1 entries- олн цег noun (typographic mark)
Kazakh
1 entries- көп нүкте noun (typographic mark)
Korean
1 entries- 줄임표 noun (typographic mark)
Latvian
1 entries- daudzpunkte noun (typographic mark)
Lithuanian
1 entries- daugtaškis noun (typographic mark)
Macedonian
3 entries- испуштање noun (omission of word or phrase)
- неколку точки noun (typographic mark)
- три точки noun (typographic mark)
Mongolian
1 entries- цуваа цэг noun (typographic mark)
Māori
1 entries- kupu mahue noun (omission of word or phrase)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ellipse noun (typographic mark)
- ellipse noun (omission of word or phrase)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- ellipse noun (typographic mark)
- ellipse noun (omission of word or phrase)
Persian
1 entries- سهنقطه noun (typographic mark)
Polish
3 entries- elipsa noun (omission of word or phrase)
- wielokropek noun (typographic mark)
- wyrzutnia noun (omission of word or phrase)
Portuguese
4 entries- elipse noun (omission of word or phrase)
- pontos de reticência noun (typographic mark)
- reticências noun (typographic mark)
- três pontos noun (typographic mark)
Romanian
2 entries- elipsă noun (omission of word or phrase)
- puncte de suspensie noun (typographic mark)
Russian
4 entries- многото́чие noun (typographic mark)
- опуще́ние noun (omission of word or phrase)
- про́пуск noun (omission of word or phrase)
- троето́чие noun (typographic mark)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- trotočje noun (typographic mark)
- trotočka noun (typographic mark)
Slovak
1 entries- tri bodky noun (typographic mark)
Slovene
1 entries- tripičje noun (typographic mark)
Spanish
2 entries- elipsis noun (omission of word or phrase)
- puntos suspensivos noun (typographic mark)
Thai
2 entries- การละความ noun (omission of word or phrase)
- จุดไข่ปลา noun (typographic mark)
Turkish
3 entries- eksilti noun (omission of word or phrase)
- eksiltim noun (omission of word or phrase)
- elips noun (omission of word or phrase)
Ukrainian
1 entries- крапки́ noun (typographic mark)
Uyghur
1 entries- كۆپ چېكىت noun (typographic mark)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dấu ba chấm noun (typographic mark)
Welsh
1 entries- atalnodau llawn noun (typographic mark)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The ellipsis are the tiptoe marks of the words gone.
Source: tatoeba (10106833)
When skipping words in a quote, put an ellipsis in square brackets, like so: "Tom went [...] to the train station".
Source: tatoeba (10333139)
In my language, the "," is called a comma, the ";" is called a semicolon, ":" is called a colon, "..." is called an ellipsis and this sentence ends in a full stop.
Source: tatoeba (13020735)
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