procope
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Late Latin procopē, via Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ) from verb προκόπτω (prokóptō, “to cut away in front; forward, advance”), προ- (pro-, “before; in front”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).
Noun[edit]
procope (uncountable)
- (phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Apheresis, the loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- apocope (“loss or omission of a sound from the end of a word”)
- syncope (“loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word”)
Translations[edit]
loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kep-
- English terms borrowed from Late Latin
- English learned borrowings from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
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