Definition of Apocope. Meaning of Apocope. Synonyms of Apocope

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Definition of Apocope

Apocope
Apocope A*poc"o*pe, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? a cutting off, fr. ? to cut off; ? from + ? to cut.] 1. The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word. 2. (Med.) A cutting off; abscission.

Meaning of Apocope from wikipedia

- In phonology, apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the omission (elision) or loss of a sound or sounds at the end of a word. While it most commonly refers to the loss...
- Rhine Franconian dialects, Palatine German has e-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final -e), n-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final n in the suffix -en) and...
- to eliminate final consonants in Vulgar Latin, either by dropping them (apocope) or adding a vowel after them (epenthesis). Many final consonants were...
- an original heavy syllable, the final vowel is often reduced or lost (apocope). The former is common in southern Norrland dialects, as in the infinitive...
- mainly consists of the following types: Final clipping, which may include apocope Initial clipping, which may include apheresis, or procope Medial clipping...
- sometimes jokingly pronounced haplogy. Elision, aphaeresis, syncope, and apocope: All are losses of sounds. Elision is the loss of unstressed sounds, aphaeresis...
- adjacent to a consonant cluster or a final consonant. Apheresis (linguistics) Apocope Clipping (morphology) Clipping (phonetics) Deletion (phonology) Elision...
- of primer (an apocope of primero) before singular masculine nouns, which is not abbreviated as 1.º but as 1.er, of tercer (an apocope of tercero) before...
- Pereira, Manizales and Armenia. The name Paisa derives from the Spanish apocope of Paisano (fellow countryman), but they are also known as "Antioqueños"...
- Examples of apocope of -e in Spanish Latin Spanish Latin Spanish parietem pared mercēdem merced pānem pan mare mar fidēlem fiel mēnsem mes pācem paz...