aphesis

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἄφεσις (áphesis, “letting go”), from ἀφίημι (aphíēmi), from ἀπό (apó, “off”) + ἵημι (híēmi, “send forth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæf.ə.sɪs/

Noun

aphesis (countable and uncountable, plural apheses)

1. (linguistics, prosody) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.

   The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis.

Antonyms

• prothesis (addition of the beginning of a word)
• apocope (omission at the end of a word)

Hypernyms

• apheresis

Related terms

• aphetic
• aphetism
• aphetized

Translations

loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word

• Interlingua: apherese
• Italian: aferesi (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 語頭母音消失 (gotō-boin shōshitsu)
• Portuguese: aférese (pt) f

See also

• aphesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• saphies