apocope
Meaninga cutting off
Common meaning: dropping the last sound(s) of a word
- apoGreek: away, off
- copto strike; to cut offLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 831 · scan
‘away, off’ + ‘to strike’ → apocope
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√SKAP‘hew, to cut, to chop’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 402, p. 744 · scan
- Greekκόπτω‘to strike’
- Englishapocope‘dropping the last sound(s) of a word’ · today
apo- also in: apostleapoplexyapocalypseapostropheapothecary
cop also in: syncopate
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek κόπτω ‘to strike; to cut off’.
Roots
- κόπτω Greek “to strike; to cut off”
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