apocope
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of apocope
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
- (broadly, countable, uncountable)The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
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