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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The addition, by growth or accident, of a non-significant letter or syllable to the end of a word: opposed to prosthesis and apocope. Examples are len-d, amongs-t, agains-t, whils-t, tyran-t. Also called epithesis and ectasis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gram.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
  • noun (Med.), obsolete Coaptation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun grammar, prosody The addition of a sound, syllable or letter to the end of a word, either through natural development or as a grammatical function.

Etymologies

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From Late Latin paragoge, from Greek παραγωγή ‘derivation, addition’.

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