"apocopation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˌpɑkəˈpeɪʃən/ [General-American], /əˌpɒkəˈpeɪʃən/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-apocopation.ogg Forms: apocopations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from, away from”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”) Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|ἀπό||from, away from}} Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from, away from”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} apocopation (plural apocopations)
  1. (linguistics) A word formed by removing the end of a longer word. Wikipedia link: apocopation Categories (topical): Linguistics Related terms: apocopate [adjective, verb], apocope [noun], apocopic [adjective], abbreviation, acronym, contraction, initialism, synaeresis

Inflected forms

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