different between apocope vs apheresis

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.

English

Alternative forms

• aphaeresis (British, Canada)
• aphæresis (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ??????? (aphairé?) (from ??- (aph-), variant of ??? (apó, “off, away from”) before an aspirated vowel) + ????? (hairé?, “to take; to snatch”)) + -??? (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action); the grammatical sense developed in Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?fî?r?s?s, IPA^(key): /??f????s?s/,
• (US) IPA^(key): /??f???s?s/ (linguistics)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æf???is?s/ (medicine)

Noun

apheresis (countable and uncountable, plural aphereses) (US, Canada)

1. (linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial; procope.

   Synonyms: pheresis, procope

   Hyponym: aphesis

   Coordinate terms: syncope, apocope

2. (medicine, specific, still current) The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).

   Synonyms: pheresis, hemapheresis

3. (medicine, general, obsolete) Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.

Derived terms

• aphaeretic, apheretic

Translations

References

Further reading

• Apheresis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Apheresis (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pharisees