prosiopesis

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpɹɒsɪəʊˈpiːsɪs/    美 /ˌpɹɑsioʊˈpisɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
    — The students of English were making good progress in getting to grips with the intricacies of informal constructions, peppering their conversations with proverbial idioms and substituting stock phrases like “Good morning!” and “Thank you.” with prosiopeses like “Morning!” and “‛Kyou.”

词形变化

prosiopeses plural

词源

Coined in 1917 by the Danish linguist Jens Otto Harry Jespersen: pro- (“before”) (from the Ancient Greek preposition πρό (pró)) + σιώπησις (siṓpēsis, “taciturnity”) (from σιωπάω (siōpáō, “to be silent”)) + -σις (-sis), (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action).
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