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Ellipse

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a regular oval shape, mathematically defined as a curve resembling a flattened circle
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elleipsis
Greek · ancient
"a falling short, a deficiency"
literally a falling short, describing a curve where a cone's slice falls short of a full circle
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ellipse
English · 1753
"an oval curved shape"
adopted directly for the oval geometric curve
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