| Pronunciation: | | 'afisis
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[n] the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' |
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APHESIS is a 7 letter word that starts with A. |
| | See Also: | | deletion, omission |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Aph"e*sis\, n. [Gr. ? a letting go; ? + ? to let go.]
The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a
word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for
esquire. --New Eng. Dict.
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