apocope
- noun
- /əˈpɑːkəpi/
- Specialized
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apocope
- An example of apocope in English is when 'advertisement' is shortened to 'ad.'
Examples
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An example of Sylvia's use of AAVE phonological rules is that she often simplifies consonant clusters (apocope) in words like "ole" for "old" (88).
Academic text (2003) -
Vide soon reduced, in some varieties of Old Spanish, through extreme apocope, thus: vide > vid > vi (although the variant vid remained in some dialects).
Academic text (2001) -
Not unexpectedly, most work in the Romance domain on homonymy has dealt with French, in whose history the impact of syncope and apocope has led to the convergent phonetic evolution of numerous genetically distinct lexicons.
Academic text (1995) -
In some dialects, the word 'photograph' is often pronounced with an apocope, shortening it to 'photo.'
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The apocope of the word 'mathematics' is commonly heard when people say 'math.'
Synonyms
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5.7
People leave out sounds or syllables when they speak quickly
Leaving out a sound or syllable when speaking, for example dropping a vowel between words
The leaving out of an expected sound or ending when speaking
Antonyms
How Short
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- Specialized
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3.7
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apocope comes from Greek parts apo- meaning 'away' and kopē (from koptein) meaning 'to cut', so it means 'cutting off at the end'. That's why apocope names the process of leaving off the final sound of a word, for example 'pud' from 'pudding'.