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English

Etymology

From Late Latin apocop?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (apokop?), ???????? (apokópt?, “cut off”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?po?co?pe
• IPA^(key): /?.?p?.k?.pi/

Noun

apocope (plural apocopes)

1. (phonetics, prosody, narrow sense) The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.

   Coordinate terms: apheresis, paragoge, syncope

2. (loosely) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

   Antonym: procope

Related terms

• apocopate
• apocopation
• apocopic

Translations

Further reading

• apocope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p?.k?p/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (apokop?).

Noun

apocope f (plural apocopes)

1. (phonetics) apocope

   Antonyms: syncope, aphérèse

Derived terms

• apocoper

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

apocope

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of apocoper
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of apocoper
3. second-person singular imperative of apocoper

Further reading

• “apocope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (apokop?).

Noun

apocope f (plural apocopi)

1. apocope
2. amputation

Related terms

• apocopare

Spanish

Verb

apocope

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of apocopar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of apocopar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of apocopar.

For abbreviations in Wiktionary, see Category:Abbreviations by language

English

Alternative forms

• abbr., abbrv., abbrev.

Etymology

First attested 1400–50. From Middle English abbreviacioun, from Middle French abreviation, from Late Latin abbrevi?ti?, from Latin ad + brevi? (“shorten”), from brevis (“short”).Morphologically abbreviate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?i?.vi?e?.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?i.vi?e?.?n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

abbreviation (countable and uncountable, plural abbreviations)

1. The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
2. (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. [Late 16^th century.]

3. The process of abbreviating. [Mid 16^th century.]
4. (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
5. (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
6. Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
   • 1946-1947, President Truman's committee on Civil Rights

     The phrase "civil rights" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships.

7. (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
8. (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.

Synonyms

• abbreviature; abridgement; abstract; compend; compression; condensation; contraction; curtailment; epitome; reduction; shortcut; summary

Antonyms

• amplification; dilation; enlargement; expansion; expatiation; extension; production

Hyponyms

• (linguistics): acronym (employing initial letters or syllables); clipping (omitting several letters); initialism (employing initial letters); symbol, sign (employing marks other than letters)

Translations

References

• “abbreviation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “abbreviation” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "abbreviation" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.