different between apocope vs clipping

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??
• Hyphenation: clip?ping

Verb

clipping

1. present participle of clip

Noun

clipping (countable and uncountable, plural clippings)

1. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
2. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
3. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word) created by removing syllables.
4. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
5. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
6. (uncountable, American football, Canadian football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.

Synonyms

• (piece of something removed by clipping): offcut, snippet
• (article clipped from a newspaper): cutting, newspaper clipping, newspaper cutting
• (word formed by shortening another): short form

Hyponyms

• (linguistics): apheresis (initial clipping); syncope (medial clipping); apocope (final clipping)

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of clippings by language
• (short form of a word): metaplasm, aphaeresis, procope, syncope, apocope

Adjective

clipping (not comparable)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) Excellent; very good.
   • 1880, Richard Mounteney Jephson, A Pink Wedding (volume 1, page 124)

     A Yankee fellow told a clipping good story.

   • 1887, Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches (page 270)

     Rather! a clipping good run!

Further reading

• clipping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clipping (morphology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clipping (phonetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clipping (signal processing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clipping (computer graphics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• clipping (gridiron football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia