(phonetics, prosody, narrow sense) The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.

plural of apocope

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apocopate

present participle of apocopate

simple past tense and past participle of apocopate

(linguistics) Of or pertaining to apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable.

A verb form of the prefix conjugation in Semitic which bears no final vowel and is considered the original perfective, but often called jussive mood.

Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable

(linguistics) To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable. / (linguistics, intransitive) To undergo apocope.

(linguistics) A word formed by removing the end of a longer word