Dictionary

aphesis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈæ.fə.sɪs/

Etymology

Attested since 1880. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄφεσις (áphesis, “letting go”), from ἀφίημι (aphíēmi), from ἀπο- (apo-, “off”) + ἵημι (híēmi, “send forth”).

Meanings

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
   • The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis.

Forms

Hypernyms

apheresis · procope

Relateds

aphetic · apheresis · aphetized · aphetism · aphetize

Translations (13)

ko 아페시스 (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · fr aphérèse (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · bg афере́за (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · es aféresis (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · ja 語頭母音消失 (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · it aferesi (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · gl aférese (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · fi afeesi (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · eo aferezo (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · pt aférese (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · el αφαίρεση (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · ia apherese (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word) · grc ἄφεσις (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

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