Ecthlipsis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The dropping out or suppression of a consonant from a word, with or without a vowel. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔκθλιψις (ékthlipsis, “a squeezing out”), from ἐκθλίβω (ekthlíbō, “to squeeze out”), from θλίβω (thlíbō, “to squeeze; to compress”).

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