Definition of Apocopate. Meaning of Apocopate. Synonyms of Apocopate

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Definition of Apocopate

Apocopate
Apocopate A*poc"o*pate, v. t. [LL. apocopatus, p. p. of apocopare to cut off, fr. L. apocore. See Apocope.] (Gram.) To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.
Apocopate
Apocopate A*poc"o*pate, Apocopated A*poc"o*pa`ted, a. Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

Meaning of Apocopate from wikipedia

- exception being /ˈbɛne/ bene 'well', perhaps due to the high frequency of apocopated ben (e.g. ben difficile 'quite difficult', ben fatto 'well made' etc.)...
- beginning with a vowel (except when they are compound to the suffix) can be apocopated; apocopations are more common before verbal forms è, ho, hai, ha, hanno...
- however, the fact that many of these same en****ics have allomorphs with apocopated final vowels (e.g. /‑še/ ~ /-š/) suggests that they were, on the contrary...
- not mangia. However, this phenomenon is absent in Cosentino; absence of apocopated infinitives spread from the Upper Mezzogiorno to Tuscany (therefore one...
- only retained in spelling as a silent E. In English /b/ and /ɡ/ were apocopated in final position after nasals: lamb, long /læm/, /lɒŋ ~ lɔːŋ/. Epenthesis...
- was due to the fact that any Old Persian post-stress syllables had been apocopated: Old Persian pati 'at' > Middle Persian pad Old Persian martiya- 'man'...
- grande and el más grande, respectively), the comparative and superlative apocopate in the same manner as the positive: la más gran casa but la casa más grande...
- subject pronoun is ye. Some dialects now use ye in place of you, or as an apocopated or ****ic form of you. See ye (pronoun). A non-standard variant of my...
- that is vocalically apocopated: ta'hala'yiht "on the ground" < ta'hal(i) "the ground" + (h)a'yihta. If an irregularly-apocopated word with a stressed...
- expressing a genitive or attributive relationship, the augment is regularly apocopated, e.g. rabbɔ ‘leader’ but rab Mandayɔnɔ ‘leader of the Mandaeans’ and kədɔwɔ...