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aphaeresis

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Noun

HYPHEN

a=phaer=e=sis

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun aphaeresis has 1 sense

aphaeresis(n = noun.process) apheresis - (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'; Array

is a kind of deletion, omission

Derived form adjective aphaeretic₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

aphaeresis, n. [L.].

Same as Apheresis. [1913 Webster]

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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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