| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| aphaeresis |
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| SYLLABICATION: | a·phaer·e·sis |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -f r  -ss |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or a·pher·e·sis |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. a·phaer·e·ses (-s z )
The loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word, as in till for until. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin, from Greek aphairesis, from aphairein, to take away : apo-, apo- + hairein, to take. | | OTHER FORMS: | aphae·retic ( f-rtk) —ADJECTIVE
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