apocope

See also: apócope and apocopé

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɒ.kə.pi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: a‧po‧co‧pe

Noun

apocope (countable and uncountable, plural apocopes)

1. (phonetics, prosody, strictly) The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.

   Antonym: paragoge

   Hypernym: clipping

   Coordinate terms: apheresis, syncope

2. (loosely) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

   Antonym: procope

Related terms

• apocopate
• apocopation
• apocopic

Translations

loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word

• Breton: losttroc'h m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 字尾音消失 (zìwěiyīn xiāoshī)

• Danish: apokope c
• Dutch: apocope (nl)
• Esperanto: apokopo
• Finnish: loppuheitto, apokopee
• French: apocope (fr) f
• Galician: apócope (gl) f
• German: Apokope (de) f
• Greek: αποκοπή (el) f (apokopí)

  Ancient: ἀποκοπή f (apokopḗ)

• Hungarian: szórövidülés (hu), apokopé
• Icelandic: brottfall (is) n
• Irish: coimriú deiridh m
• Italian: apocope (it)
• Japanese: 語尾音消失 (ja) (ごびおんしょうしつ, gobionshōshitsu), 語末音消失 (ja) (ごまつおんしょうしつ, gomatsuon shōshitsu)
• Macedonian: апо́копа f (apókopa)
• Occitan: apocòpa (oc) f
• Polish: apokopa (pl) f
• Portuguese: apócope (pt) f
• Russian: апоко́па (ru) f (apokópa)
• Spanish: apócope (es) f, apócopa (es) f
• Swedish: apokope (sv) c
• Turkish: apokop
• Welsh: ôl-doriad m

Further reading

• apocope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔ.kɔp/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ).

Noun

apocope f (plural apocopes)

1. (phonetics) apocope

   Antonyms: syncope, aphérèse

Derived terms

• apocoper

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

apocope

1. inflection of apocoper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “apocope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpɔ.ko.pe/
• Rhymes: -ɔkope
• Hyphenation: a‧pò‧co‧pe

Noun

apocope f (plural apocopi)

1. apocope
2. amputation

Related terms

• apocopare

Portuguese

Verb

apocope

1. inflection of apocopar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

apocope

1. inflection of apocopar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative