Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, as in Modern English sing from Middle English singen.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In grammar, the cutting off or omission of the last letter or syllable of a word, as in th' for the, i' for in.
- n. In surgery, a wound with loss of substance; ablation; amputation.
- n. [capitalized] [NL.] In zoology, a genus of plec-tospondylous fishes, of the family Cyprinidæ. It contains several species of western North America, such as A. couesi. E. D. Cope, 1871.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.
- n. A cutting off; abscission.
WordNet 3.0
- n. abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds
Etymologies
- Late Latin, from Greek apokopē, from apokoptein, to cut off : apo-, apo- + koptein, to cut.
Examples
“apocope' of the final 'us', Taylor is supported by 'honest' and”
“Please read on Estonian apocope as but one example showing the falsity of your beliefs since regardless of vocal height, surely these differing vowels converged before being zeroed.”
“Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction.”
“Tropylium: "Wait, I realize now having misunderstood somewhat; you're not trying to trigger gemination by apocope, but by reduction.”
“But siccing apocope on (C)VCV, (C)VC should be an acceptable outcome, if coda consonants count as moraic.”
“Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. p.24 see link: Since only word-internal tense plosives were preglottalized, the Old Danish apocope produced such pairs as WJut. kat - kat' 'cat - cats' kat - kaʔt corresponding to St.”
“For instance, in the prehistory of Modern Persian, apocope introduced word-final clusters of obstruent or nasal + r.”
“He had even taken to exaggerating the natural apocope of his speech, because it made him seem less like someone who would work in computers.”
“In these dialects many words end in a consonant but they cannot be seen as an apocope of an Italian word.”
“The final vowel, suffering apocope, would leave “Zarabt” equally applicable to the first person singular and the second person singular masculine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apocope’.
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Rhetorical Devices
syllepsis, zeugma, trope, wellerism, anastrophe, anaphora, apostrophe, metonymy, chiasmus, antimetabole, syncope, open-list and 431 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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[Open] Excellent Potential Cat Names
Please use the lowercase form of words that don’t usually appear as proper names (unless the word should be capitalized for other reasons). Words that are used primarily or exclusively as names (e...
domovoi, домово́й, Schroedinger, Feral, debulition, zenzizenzizenzic, Schrödinger, zenzizenzic, snarf, crepuscular ray, crepusculum, hell and 23 more...
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palimpsest
an overlapping of manuscripts.
eschatology, ostentatiously, harangue, caricature, caveat, chiaroscuro, Emollient, Diaphanous, Demesne, cataclysm, milieu, puerile and 23 more...
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Words So Useful That They Would be Overused if ...
gardyloo, avunculize, prorogue, mortmain, growlery, accubitus, harridan, illeism, apophasis, tmesis, palimpsest, catmalison and 7 more...
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Metawords
Talking about talking, writing about writing, etc.
epizeuxis, tautological, aptote, bibliophagist, parataxis, scriptorium, aposiopesis, variorum, chantefable, boustrophedon, psellism, adoxography and 20 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
Dan337 I want to build a table on this word, invite over adelaide (she’s too “modern” for capitalization) and her pal the abbé, and serve them edda. Sep 18, 2011
jmjarmstrong JM is looking for a handy tool to perform apocope on overly long words – like pruning is with plants so it will be with language – at least that’s what I reck’n. Apr 28, 2011
jmjarmstrong JM cannot cope with more than 3 apocopes a day - otherwise he pulls up too short. Jan 10, 2011
frindley Preferred rhetorical device of the Aussies, e.g. barbie for barbeque (or "barbecue" if you must). Apr 6, 2008
reesetee Thosefinches, I have a list of these, if you care to suggest any others. :-)
Oh, and great name, by the way. Oct 25, 2007
thosefinches loss or omission of the last letter, syllable, or particle word. (as in 'darlin' used for 'darling') Oct 25, 2007
uselessness You spammer. ;-) Mar 6, 2007