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PRONUNCIATION OF APOCOPATION

apocopation  [əˌpɒkəˈpeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APOCOPATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apocopation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES APOCOPATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apocope

In phonology, apocope is the loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word, and especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.

Definition of apocopation in the English dictionary

The definition of apocopation in the dictionary is omission of the final sound or sounds of.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APOCOPATION


anticipation
ænˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən
constipation
ˌkɒnstɪˈpeɪʃən
dissipation
ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən
emancipation
ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən
exculpation
ˌɛkskʒlˈpeɪʃən
extirpation
ˌekstəˈpeɪʃən
forcipation
ˌfɔːsɪˈpeɪʃən
inculpation
ˌɪnkʌlˈpeɪʃən
inoccupation
ɪnˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
mancipation
ˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən
obstipation
ˌɒbstɪˈpeɪʃən
occupation
ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
owner-occupation
ˌəʊnəʳˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
palpation
pælˈpeɪʃən
participation
pɑːˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃən
preoccupation
priːˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
pupation
pjuːˈpeɪʃən
reoccupation
ˌriːɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən
syncopation
ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən
usurpation
ˌjuːzɜːˈpeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APOCOPATION

apocalyptist
apocarp
apocarpous
apocarpy
apocatastasis
apochromat
apochromatic
apochromatic lens
apochromatism
apocopate
apocope
apocopic
apocrine
Apocrypha
apocryphal
Apocryphal Gospels
apocryphally
apocryphalness
apocynaceous
apocynthion

WORDS THAT END LIKE APOCOPATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of apocopation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «apocopation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APOCOPATION

Find out the translation of apocopation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of apocopation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «apocopation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

apocopation
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apócope
570 millions of speakers

English

apocopation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

apocopation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

apocopation
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

apocopation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apocopation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

apocopation
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apocope
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Apocopation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

apocopation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

apocopation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

apocopation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apocopation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

apocopation
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

apocopation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपोकोपेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

apocopation
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

apocope
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

apocopation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

apocopation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apocopation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

apocopation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

apocopation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

apocopation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

apocopation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of apocopation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APOCOPATION»

The term «apocopation» is barely ever used and occupies the 204.005 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APOCOPATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «apocopation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «apocopation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about apocopation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOCOPATION»

Discover the use of apocopation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to apocopation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities
Apocopation A. Before 70: — B. Yavrieh: 1. M. 5:1: Huge construction of brief clauses, ending in dispute. 2. M. 5:2A-D. As above. 3. M. 6:2: Extended statement of cases stated in brief clause + dispute, Joshua, sages, unclean, clean. 4-7. M. 6: 3 ...
Jacob Neusner, 1976
2
Mastering Italian
As a rule, cases of apocopation other than those pointed out here do occur, especially in rapid speech, but they are not obligatory. 37. Except for a few words like po, the guidelines for apocopation (like those for elision) given here refer to ...
‎1985
3
A Reference Grammar of Spanish
Below is a passage illustrating, in a limited way, how apocopation functions in Spanish. The highlighted words indicate this. —¡Es un niño, el primer niño de la familia! —le dijo la matrona sonriendo, según mostraba al recién nacido. Él miró de ...
R. E. Batchelor, Miguel Ángel San José, 2010
4
An Essential Course in Modern Spanish
Apocopation of Adjectives. (a) Uno, alguno, ninguno, bueno, malo, primero and tercero lose their ñnal -o when they precede a masculine singular noun. Tengo un vaso. I have one (or a) tumbler. but Tengo uno; tengo uno verde. I have one; I  ...
H. Ramsden, 2000
5
Explanation and Linguistic Change
Except with adjectives, where -u is regularly deleted whenever the phonological conditions on u-apocopation are met, regardless of whether they are feminine singular or neuter plural, the regularity of u-apocopation is not quite independent of ...
Willem F. Koopman, 1987
6
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Purities, Part 3: Kelim: ...
utensils. the whole .is [The apocopation is a matter of word order.] 55. M. 26:2D: A bag within a bag, one became unclean the other has not T.B.B. 4:2: T. preserves apocopation. 56. M. 27:2T: Meir: Sacking, its remnant 57. M. 27:3: He who ...
Jacob Neusner, 2006
7
Arab Linguistics: An Introductory Classical Text with ...
Having finished with the operators which make the imperfect tense verb dependent, the author now turns to the operators which apocopate it: 5.7 The operators of apocopation are eighteen in number:1 they are divided into two kinds, those ...
Mu?ammad ibn A?mad Shirb?n?, C. H. M. Versteegh, M. G. Carter, 1981
8
A Phonology of Italian in a Generative Grammar
The topic of elisione e troncamento, or ellipsis and apocopation, has stimulated less response. Malagoli (1913), Peruzzi (1960), and Leone (1963) have paid particular attention to this phenomenon. According to Leone the “phenomenon of  ...
Mario Saltarelli, 1970
9
History of the Yiddish Language
Apocopation and disappearance of the preterit (§7.46.1): there is a fairly widely accepted theory that the disappearance of the preterit began in the weak verbs due to the fact that after apocopation, there was no longer any difference between ...
Max Weinreich, 2008
10
Introduction to the Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine ...
... Clause” §28c Apocopation of Genitive in Construct Phrase §28d Apocopation of Subjective Genitive in Infinitival Phrase §28e Apocopation of Time Expressions §28fGapping of Counted Item in Numerical Expressions §28g Apocopation of ...
Michael Rand, 2006

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOCOPATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term apocopation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Not in Rio Anymore
... language student's worst nightmare: the use of strictly slang conversational vocabulary made impossibly fluid through apocopation. «Santa Barbara Independent, Oct 10»
2
How we get from Refugio to Cuco
Other phonetical laws not mentioned by Waterhouse that influence Mexican Spanish nicknames include apocopation (the dropping of a word's ... «Westword, Dec 08»

REFERENCE
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