ellipt
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from ellipsis.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪpt
Verb edit
ellipt (third-person singular simple present ellipts, present participle ellipting, simple past and past participle ellipted)
- (linguistics) To omit (from an utterance) by ellipsis.
- 2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences, page 210:
- […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]