‖ apocope
(əˈpɒkəpiː)
[L., a. Gr. ἀποκοπή a cutting off, f. ἀποκόπ-τ-ειν to cut off.]
The cutting off or omission of the last letter or syllable of a word. Hence apoˈcopic a.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict. B ij a, Apocope..as for vamos nos, they say vamonos. 1711 J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 196 Hence [from mis] comes the French Preposition Mes, and by an Apocope Me, as in mecontent. 1860 Farrar Orig. Lang. viii. 175 Words and roots in a violent state of fusion and apocope. |