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Definition of aphetically in English English dictionary
- In an aphetic way: through aphesis
- In an aphetic way: pertaining to the apheta
- Aphesis
- the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
- Aphesis
- mispronouncing a word by dropping one or more initial, usually unstressed syllables "'cept" instead of "except " See also: aphetic
- Aphesis
- the omission of the initial syllable of a word See also Apocope
- Aphesis
- A form of aphaeresis in which the syllable omitted is short and unaccented, as in round for around
- aphesis
- The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word
- aphesis
- The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire
- aphesis
- aphetism
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