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Apheses vs Aphesis - What's the difference?

apheses | aphesis |

As nouns the difference between apheses and aphesis

is that apheses is plural of aphesis while aphesis is the loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.

apheses

English

Noun

(head)

    • aphesis

    English

    Noun

    (apheses)
  • (linguistics, prosody) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.
    • The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis .

    Antonyms

    * prothesis (addition of the beginning of a word) * apocope (omission at the end of a word)

    Related terms

    * aphetic * aphetism * aphetized

    Hypernyms

    * apheresis

    See also

    * ("aphesis" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals