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apocope
MEANING: abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
Hypernym Tree (apocope is a type of)
abbreviation -- (a shortened form of a word or phrase
form, word_form, signifier, descriptor -- (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
language_unit, linguistic_unit -- (one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
part, portion, component_part, component -- (something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"
relation -- (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
abstraction -- (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
Also See
apocope -- (abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
