different between apocope vs prosiopesis

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

Etymology

Coined in 1917 by the Danish linguist Jens Otto Harry Jespersen: pro- (“before”) (from the Ancient Greek preposition ??? (pró)) + ???????? (si?p?sis, “taciturnity”) (from ?????? (si?pá?, “to be silent”)) + -??? (-sis), (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?s'??p??s?s, pr?'s??p??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??s????pi?s?s/ /?p??s???pi?s?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr?s'i?pi?s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??sio??pis?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s?s
• Hyphenation: pros?i?o?pe?sis

Noun

prosiopesis (countable and uncountable, plural prosiopeses)

1. (grammar) Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.
   • 2003, David Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, page 159 (5th Ed.; Wiley–Blackwell; ?ISBN, 9780631226642)

     Traditional rhetoric was much concerned with the phenomenon of elision, because of the implications for constructing well-formed metrical lines, which would scan well. In rhetorical terminology, an elision in word-initial position was known as aphaeresis or prosiopesis, in word-medial position as syncope, and in word-final position as apocope. A similar classification was made for the opposite of elision, intrusion.

Coordinate terms

• (forms of word-elision): (from word-final position) apocope, aposiopesis; (from word-medial position) syncope, *synsiopesis

Related terms

• prosiopetic (rare)

References