ἔλλειψις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “to fall short, omit”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /él.leːp.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈel.lip.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈel.lip.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈel.lip.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈe.lip.sis/
Noun
ἔλλειψῐς • (élleipsis) f (genitive ἐλλείψεως); third declension
- A falling short, defect
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 102
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 356a
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 187a.17
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1042b.25
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 2.1106b.16:
- λέγω δὲ τὴν ἠθικήν· αὕτη γάρ ἐστι περὶ πάθη καὶ πράξεις, ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἔστιν ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἔλλειψις καὶ τὸ μέσον.
- légō dè tḕn ēthikḗn; haútē gár esti perì páthē kaì práxeis, en dè toútois éstin huperbolḕ kaì élleipsis kaì tò méson.
- 1911 translation by D. P. Chase
- I mean moral [virtue]; for it is this that is concerned with passions and actions, and in these there is excess, defect, and the intermediate.
- λέγω δὲ τὴν ἠθικήν· αὕτη γάρ ἐστι περὶ πάθη καὶ πράξεις, ἐν δὲ τούτοις ἔστιν ὑπερβολὴ καὶ ἔλλειψις καὶ τὸ μέσον.
- (geometry) The conic section: an ellipse
- 262 BCE – 190 BCE, Apollonius of Perga, Conics 1.13
- (grammar) An ellipsis (the omission of a word)
- 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 14.644a
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 117.19
- (grammar) The omission of a letter, elision
- 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Pronouns 56.28
- An eclipse
- 495 CE – 570 CE, Olympiodorus the Younger, Commentary on the Aristotle's Meteorology 67.37
Declension
Third declension of ἡ ἔλλειψῐς; τῆς ἐλλείψεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἔλλειψῐς hē élleipsis | τὼ ἐλλείψει tṑ elleípsei | αἱ ἐλλείψεις hai elleípseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐλλείψεως tês elleípseōs | τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν toîn elleipséoin | τῶν ἐλλείψεων tôn elleípseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐλλείψει têi elleípsei | τοῖν ἐλλειψέοιν toîn elleipséoin | ταῖς ἐλλείψεσῐ / ἐλλείψεσῐν taîs elleípsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἔλλειψῐν tḕn élleipsin | τὼ ἐλλείψει tṑ elleípsei | τᾱ̀ς ἐλλείψεις tā̀s elleípseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔλλειψῐ élleipsi | ἐλλείψει elleípsei | ἐλλείψεις elleípseis | ||||||||||
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Antonyms
- (defect): ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ), ὑπεροχή (huperokhḗ)
Descendants
- Greek: έλλειψη (élleipsi)
- → Latin: ellīpsis (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “ἔλλειψις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔλλειψις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- ἔλλειψις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- default idem, page 203.
- defect idem, page 204.
- deficiency idem, page 205.
- failure idem, page 301.