elide
[ih-lahyd]
- to omit (a vowel, consonant, or syllable) in pronunciation.
- to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over.
- Law. to annul or quash.
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Origin of elide
1585–95; < Latin ēlīdere to strike out, equivalent to ē- e-1 + -līdere, combining form of laedere to wound
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Historical Examples
The vowel is elided in some cases, and coalesces with another vowel in others.
A Handbook of the Cornish LanguageHenry Jenner
The -e in fairest-e is not elided; neither is the -e in wist-e in l. 745.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7)Geoffrey Chaucer
The final e in fled-de is not elided, owing to the pause after it.
But even in the matter of elided consonants American is not always the conservator.
The American LanguageHenry L. Mencken
At times a vowel is elided; or rather but faintly touched by the voice.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa InariJames S. De Benneville
elide
- phonetics to undergo or cause to undergo elision
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin ēlīdere to knock, from laedere to hit, wound
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Word Origin and History for elided
elide
v.
1590s, a legal term, "to annul, do away with," from Middle French elider (16c.), from Latin elidere "strike out," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + -lidere, comb. form of laedere "to strike." Phonological sense is first recorded 1796. Related: Elided; eliding.
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