aphaeresis

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Noun
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a=phaer=e=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun aphaeresis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

aphaeresisn. [L.].

OXFORD 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)

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