apocope

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

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɒ.kə.pi/

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• Hyphenation: a‧po‧co‧pe

apocope (countable and uncountable, plural apocopes)

1. (phonetics, prosody, strictly) The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.

   Antonym: paragoge

   Hypernym: clipping

   Coordinate terms: apheresis, syncope

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

   Antonym: procope

• apocopate
• apocopation
• apocopic

• apocope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

First attested in 1550.^[1] Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “to cut off, to hew”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /aːpoːˈkoːp(ə)/, /aːˈpoː.koː.peː/

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• Hyphenation: apo‧co‧pe

apocope f (plural apocope's or apocopen or apocopes)

1. (linguistics) apocope (loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word)

   Antonym: paragoge

   Hypernym: metaplasma

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔ.kɔp/
• Hyphenation: a‧po‧cope

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ).

apocope f (plural apocopes)

1. (phonetics) apocope

   Antonyms: syncope, aphérèse

• apocoper

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

apocope

1. inflection of apocoper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “apocope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ).

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.ko.pe/
• Rhymes: -ɔkope
• Hyphenation: a‧pò‧co‧pe

apocope f (plural apocopi)

1. apocope
2. amputation

• apocopare

Derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈpɔ.kɔ.peː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈpɔː.ko.pe]
• Hyphenation: a‧po‧co‧pē

apocopē f (genitive apocopēs); first declension

1. apocope (loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word)

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “apocope”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Hyphenation: a‧pó‧co‧pe

apocope

1. inflection of apocopar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /apoˈkope/ [a.poˈko.pe]
• Rhymes: -ope
• Syllabification: a‧po‧co‧pe

apocope

1. inflection of apocopar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative