ἔλλειψιν (elleipsin)

ἔλλειψιν is an Ancient Greek form of ἔλλειψις, meaning “lack, deficiency; ellipse”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 13·2: … ς μνήμονες εἶεν οἱ παῖδες, εἴτε καὶ τοὐναντίον ἐπιλήσμονες. τὴν γὰρ πλεονεξίαν τῆς φύσεως ἐπιρρώσομεν, τὴν δʼ ἔλλειψιν ἀναπληρώσομεν· καὶ οἱ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἔσονται βελτίους, οἱ δʼ ἑαυτῶν. τὸ γὰρ Ἡσιόδειον καλῶς εἴρηται εἰ γάρ κεν …

All forms of ἔλλειψις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.