Associations to the word «Apocope»
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Wiktionary
APOCOPE, noun. (prosody) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
Dictionary definition
APOCOPE, noun. Abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.