Synonyms for "aphesis"

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Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

apheresisdeletionomissionprocope

Antonyms

2 entries

apocopeprothesis

Related terms

5 entries

apheresisapheticaphetismaphetizeaphetized

has context

2 entries

linguisticsprosody

is a

2 entries

apheresisomission

related to

8 entries

apheticaphetismaphetizedinitiallossunstressedvowelword

Translations

12 translations across 12 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries

• ἄφεσις noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Bulgarian

1 entries

• афереза noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Esperanto

1 entries

• aferezo noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

French

1 entries

• aphérèse noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Galician

1 entries

• aférese noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Greek

1 entries

• αφαίρεση noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Interlingua

1 entries

• apherese noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Italian

1 entries

• aferesi noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Japanese

1 entries

• 語頭母音消失 noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Korean

1 entries

• 아페시스 noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Portuguese

1 entries

• aférese noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Spanish

1 entries

• aféresis noun (loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis.

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