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apocope
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As a noun, apocope means the loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
Meanings of apocope
3 meaningsnoun
phoneticsprosodynarrow senseThe loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
looselyThe loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
Abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds
“the British get ‘pud’ from ‘pudding’ by apocope”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
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