aphesis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
    — The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis.

词形变化

apheses plural

词源

Attested since 1880. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄφεσις (áphesis, “letting go”), from ἀφίημι (aphíēmi), from ἀπο- (apo-, “off”) + ἵημι (híēmi, “send forth”).
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