Aphetic example sentences

aphetic

definition

  - adjective form of aphesis

aph·e·sis

noun linguistics

aphesis (noun)

  - the loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word (e.g., of a from around to form round).

Synonyms

aphesis, exclusion, exception, deletion, erasure, cut, excision, elimination, absence, apheresis, apocope, apostrophe, asyndeton, elision, ellipsis, gapping, haplography, haplology, syncope, expunction, addition, inclusion

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