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apocope

noun
/əˈpɒ.kə.pi/UK/əˈpɑ.kə.pi/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).

  1. derived from ἀποκοπή
  2. learned borrowing from apocopē

Definitions

  1. The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that…

    The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.

  2. The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for apocope. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA