elide

See also: Elide, élide, and élidé

English

Etymology

From Latin ēlīdō (“I strike out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

elide (third-person singular simple present elides, present participle eliding, simple past and past participle elided)

1. To leave out or omit (something).
   • 1995, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:

     Graham Hough's apparently objective assertion that 'Ozymandias' is 'extremely clear and direct', for example, elides the question of 'to whom?'.

2. (linguistics) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
3. To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.
   • 2014 July 10, “Because we’re worth it”, in The Economist‎^[3]:

     As Ms Shafak summarises, “the state is privileged, all-powerful and yet paradoxically safeguarded as if it were a fragile entity in need of protection.” Between it and its citizens a gulf looms; conversely, officials elide its interests with their own.

Usage notes

The third sense, “conflate”, seems to be a recent development. It is not recognized by dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster and can be considered to be incorrect.

Related terms

• collide
• elidable
• elision
• ellipsis

 

Translations

to leave out or omit

• Arabic: أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa), حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa)
• Asturian: omitir
• Bulgarian: премълчавам (bg) (premǎlčavam)
• Catalan: ometre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 省略 (zh) (shěnglüè)

• Czech: vynechat
• Danish: udelade
• Dutch: weglaten (nl)
• Finnish: jättää pois
• French: omettre (fr)
• Galician: omitir (gl)
• Georgian: გამოტოვება (gamoṭoveba)
• German: weglassen (de), auslassen (de)
• Greek: παραλείπω (el) (paraleípo)
• Hungarian: kihagy (hu)
• Italian: omettere (it)
• Japanese: 省略する (ja) (しょうりゃくする, shōryaku suru), 抜かす (ja) (ぬかす, nukasu)
• Maori: whakamutu, whāmutu, kape, tīpoka
• Norwegian: unnta, hoppe over

  Bokmål: utelate

• Polish: pominąć (pl), pomijać (pl), opuszczać (pl), opuścić (pl)
• Portuguese: omitir (pt)
• Romanian: omite (ro), a lăsa la o parte
• Russian: пропуска́ть (ru) impf (propuskátʹ), пропусти́ть (ru) pf (propustítʹ), не включа́ть (ru) impf (ne vključátʹ), не включи́ть (ru) pf (ne vključítʹ)
• Spanish: omitir (es), dejar de lado
• Swedish: utelämna (sv)
• Turkish: hariç bırakmak, ihmal etmek (tr)

to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable

• Arabic: أَسْقَطَ (ʔasqaṭa), حَذَفَ (ḥaḏafa)
• Dutch: elideren (nl), verbinden (nl)
• French: élider (fr)
• Italian: elidere (it)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: елиди́рати impf or pf

  Roman: elidírati (sh) impf or pf

to conflate

• Dutch: samenvoegen (nl), verbinden (nl)
• Estonian: kokku sulatama
• Finnish: yhdistää (fi)
• French: amalgamer (fr), confondre (fr)
• German: verbinden (de), vereinigen (de), verschmelzen (de)
• Japanese: 融合する (ja) (yūgō suru)
• Polish: połączyć (pl)
• Portuguese: unir (pt), amalgamar (pt)
• Romanian: confunda (ro)
• Russian: соединя́ть (ru) (sojedinjátʹ), объединя́ть (ru) (obʺjedinjátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сједи́нити pf

  Roman: sjedíniti (sh) pf

• Spanish: amalgamar (es), confundir (es), unir (es)
• Turkish: birleştirmek (tr)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “elide”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• edile, idele, leied

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈli.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: e‧lì‧de

Verb

elide

1. third-person singular present indicative of elidere

Anagrams

• edile

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈliː.de/, [eːˈlʲiːd̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈli.de/, [eˈliːd̪e]

Verb

ēlīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ēlīdō

Portuguese

Verb

elide

1. inflection of elidir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈlide/ [eˈli.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide
• Syllabification: e‧li‧de

Verb

elide

1. inflection of elidir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative