aphesis in English

noun

1

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

That word was created from it later by losing its first syllable through a process called aphesis and had the same sense.

Use "aphesis" in a sentence

1. What does Aphetize mean? To shorten by aphesis

2. Aphasias aphasic aphesis aphasiac aphasics Aphagias biphasic aphagia phasis aphasiacs

3. Aphetize definition: to shorten by aphesis Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

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5. Aphetized ( not comparable ) ( linguistics, of a word) Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel

6. Aphetize ( third-person singular simple present Aphetizes, present participle aphetizing, simple past and past participle Aphetized ) ( transitive, linguistics) To shorten by aphesis.

7. Bated here is a contraction of aBated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”.

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