aphaereses

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• aphaeresis — noun (plural aphaereses) Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek aphairesis, literally, taking off, from aphairein to take away, from apo + hairein to take Date: circa 1550 the loss of one or more sounds or letters at the beginning of a word (as in… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• aphaeresis — n. (pl. aphaereses) the omission of a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word as a morphological development (e.g. in the derivation of adder). Etymology: LL f. Gk aphairesis (as APO , haireo take) …   Useful english dictionary