Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, as in Modern English sing from Middle English singen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, the cutting off or omission of the last letter or syllable of a word, as in
th' for the, i' for in. - noun In surgery, a wound with loss of substance; ablation; amputation.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of plec-tospondylous fishes, of the family Cyprinidæ. It contains several species of western North America, such as A. couesi. E. D. Cope, 1871.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.
- noun (Med.) A cutting off; abscission.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun prosody The loss or
omission of asound orsyllable from the end of aword .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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'apocope' of the final 'us', Taylor is supported by 'honest' and
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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Please read on Estonian apocope as but one example showing the falsity of your beliefs since regardless of vocal height, surely these differing vowels converged before being zeroed.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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But siccing apocope on (C)VCV, (C)VC should be an acceptable outcome, if coda consonants count as moraic.
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Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. p.24 see link: Since only word-internal tense plosives were preglottalized, the Old Danish apocope produced such pairs as WJut. kat - kat' 'cat - cats' kat - kaʔt corresponding to St.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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Tropylium: "Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction."
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For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.
Pre-IE Syncope and possibly expanding the Metathesis rule 2008
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Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction.
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Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. p.24 see link: Since only word-internal tense plosives were preglottalized, the Old Danish apocope produced such pairs as WJut. kat - kat' 'cat - cats' kat - kaʔt corresponding to St.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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He had even taken to exaggerating the natural apocope of his speech, because it made him seem less like someone who would work in computers.
The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse Bob Ingersoll 2004
uselessness commented on the word apocope
You spammer. ;-)
March 6, 2007
thosefinches commented on the word apocope
loss or omission of the last letter, syllable, or particle word. (as in 'darlin' used for 'darling')
October 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word apocope
Thosefinches, I have a list of these, if you care to suggest any others. :-)
Oh, and great name, by the way.
October 25, 2007
frindley commented on the word apocope
Preferred rhetorical device of the Aussies, e.g. barbie for barbeque (or "barbecue" if you must).
April 6, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word apocope
JM cannot cope with more than 3 apocopes a day - otherwise he pulls up too short.
January 10, 2011
jmjarmstrong commented on the word apocope
JM is looking for a handy tool to perform apocope on overly long words – like pruning is with plants so it will be with language – at least that’s what I reck’n.
April 28, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word apocope
I want to build a table on this word, invite over adelaide (she’s too “modern” for capitalization) and her pal the abbé, and serve them edda.
September 18, 2011