Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in copter from helicopter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
apheresis , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
apheresis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK Alternative spelling of
apheresis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He preserves the peculiarity of the Ionians for the preterite tenses of verbs the aphaeresis, as where he says [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted].
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This, by an aphaeresis of tau and an epenthesis of omicron in two places, may be identified with echonoe, and signifies
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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The patient used 5-6 units of aphaeresis products each day.
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We are on track to begin three more Mipomersen studies this year and aphaeresis-eligible patient study, as well as two studies in high risk patient population.
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We are on track to begin three more Mipomersen studies this year and aphaeresis-eligible patient study, as well as two studies in high risk patient population.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008
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That aside is vintage Espy, vintage cute -- in the old sense of acute, as W.R. E. reminds us in discussing aphaeresis, the "loss of an initial letter or syllable."
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- a quick, penetrating insight; immediate impression, intuition, or estimate n. - & a. laxative (medicine). aperitive, adj. aphaeresis
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whichbe commented on the word aphaeresis
The loss of initial consonants in words or morphemes. (Atata>Tata)
June 20, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word aphaeresis
JM blames aphids for the rise in aphaeresis, seriously!
December 28, 2010
biocon commented on the word aphaeresis
In addition, aphaeresis means surgical excision of an abnormal part of the body; amputation; extraction (of teeth (OED).
February 12, 2012