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Meaning of "apocope" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD APOCOPE

Via Late Latin from Greek apokopē, from apokoptein to cut off.
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PRONUNCIATION OF APOCOPE

apocope  [əˈpɒkəpɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APOCOPE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Apocope 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 APOCOPE 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 apocope in the English dictionary

The definition of apocope in the dictionary is omission of the final sound or sounds of a word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH APOCOPE


arthroscopy
ɑːˈθrɒskəpɪ
bronchoscopy
brɒŋˈkɒskəpɪ
colonoscopy
ˌkɒləˈnɒskəpɪ
colposcopy
kɒlˈpɒskəpɪ
cystoscopy
sɪsˈtɒskəpɪ
endoscopy
ˌenˈdɒskəpɪ
fluoroscopy
flʊəˈrɒskəpɪ
gastroscopy
ɡæsˈtrɒskəpɪ
laparoscopy
ˌlæpəˈrɒskəpɪ
laryngoscopy
ˌlərɪŋˈɡɒskəpɪ
microscopy
maɪˈkrɒskəpɪ
ophthalmoscopy
ˌɒfθælˈmɒskəpɪ
otoscopy
əʊˈtɒskəpɪ
pericope
pəˈrɪkəpɪ
retinoscopy
ˌrɛtɪˈnɒskəpɪ
sigmoidoscopy
ˌsɪɡmɔɪdˈɒskəpɪ
spectroscopy
spɛkˈtrɒskəpɪ
stereoscopy
ˌstɛrɪˈɒskəpɪ
syncope
ˈsɪŋkəpɪ
ultramicroscopy
ˌʌltrəmaɪˈkrɒskəpɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE APOCOPE

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE APOCOPE

confocal microscope
cope
electron microscope
endoscope
gyroscope
horoscope
Hubble space telescope
Hubble telescope
kaleidoscope
microscope
ophthalmoscope
oscilloscope
otoscope
radio telescope
scanning electron microscope
scope
stereoscope
stethoscope
stroboscope
telescope

Synonyms and antonyms of apocope in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «apocope» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF APOCOPE

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

Translator English - Chinese

apocope
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apócope
570 millions of speakers

English

apocope
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

apocope
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بتر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

apocope
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apócope
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দের শেষাংশ বর্জন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

apocope
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Apocope
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

apocope
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

apocope
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

apocope
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Apocope
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cách bớt chử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சொல்லின் இறுதி எழுத்தை நீக்கி விடல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपोकोप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

apokop
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

apocope
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

apocope
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

apocope
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apocopă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

apocope
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

apocope
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

apocope
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

apokope
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of apocope

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «APOCOPE»

The term «apocope» is normally little used and occupies the 119.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «APOCOPE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «apocope» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «apocope» 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 apocope

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOCOPE»

Discover the use of apocope in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to apocope and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Germanic Accentology
various information on free apocope in Scandinavian dialects. His main thesis is that apocope usually begins as free (voluntary) and later the system generalizes either shorter or longer forms: everything depends on which forms win at the end  ...
Anatoly Liberman, 1982
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Optimality Theory and Language Change
As shown in Table 3, both variants are subject to apocope after stems meeting certain prosodic requirements, such as word- and werod-; the prosodic conditions are discussed below. Intriguingly, however, the gen.pl. ending Dal fails to ...
D.E. Holt, International Linguistic Association, 2003
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Rule Generalization and Optionality in Language Change
We make the same assumption about the optional rule of apocope listed in (10), which operated to delete final unstressed vowels: (10) Apocope e — a / C ] We adopt the traditional view of apocope as a native phenomenon which entered the  ...
Samuel Jay Keyser, Wayne A. O'Neil, 1985
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Musica Poetica: Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque ...
APOCOPE: an omitted or shortened final note in one voice of a composition. The literal meaning of apocope (to "cut off') is reflected in both the rhetorical and the musical figure. While the rhetorical figure refers to cutting off a word's final letter ...
Dietrich Bartel
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Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian ...
Among the extralinguistic factors that played a role in the spread of extreme apocope, geographical location was an important one. The process had become firmly established both in Catalan (Badfa Margarit 1951: 169-71), spoken in the ...
Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front, 1997
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Koineization in Medieval Spanish
Ordofiez (1993: 69) has interpreted this as meaning that apocope of lo could not have played a role in the development of apocope, and does not mention leismo as a possible factor in any of her later publications. However, if apocope allowed  ...
Donald N. Tuten, 2003
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A Hebrew Lexicon to the Books of the Old Testament: ...
Hiph. apocope, of rki* to swear. q. v. HN^, nwfut. Kal, apocope, of n/}K to come, for nw, nnxv 13}, tin 2 Kings xii. 12. for xin /u«. JfoZ of »Tia. So 2 Kings iii. 24. in Chethib, but where if this reading is to be preferred, it ought to be used for the plural ...
Wilhelm Gesenius, 1828
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Fishes and Fisheries of Nevada
Apocope vulnerata, ibid Apocope carringtoni, Jordan and Henshaw, 1878: 191 Apocope vulnerata, ibid: 191-192 Apocope carringtoni, Jordan and Gilbert, 1882B: 209-210 Apocope vulnerata, ibid: 210 Apocope henshavii, ibid Agosia ...
Ira La Rivers, 1962
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Japanese Morphophonemics: Markedness and Word Structure
As part of a group of sweeping apocope processes characterizing the transition from Middle to New High German, adjectives, together with many other kinds of lexical items, lost their final [3] (orthographic <e». This resulted in changes like ...
Junko Itō, Armin Mester, 2003
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Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics ...
b. net nou uwe brief geontvangen ('just now received your letter'; B. J. Brummer, 19/9/1907) T-apocope in Cape Dutch Vernacular was a variable rule in the Labovian sense; that is, phonological and grammatical factors ([ivoice] of the ...
Ana Deumert, 2004

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOCOPE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term apocope is used in the context of the following news items.
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Joe Nathan's Return To Form Bodes Well For The Tigers [BLOG]
The players have faced the media with shell shocked looks, wondering if those darn Zubaz were actually cursed, stammering in apocope ... «CBS Local, Jun 14»
2
Gabriel Garcia Marquez est mort
L'univers de Gabo, apocope de Gabito, comme le baptiseront ses collègues du journal El Espectador, est chargé d'amour, de malheurs, ... «l'Humanité, Apr 14»
3
Un po, po' o pò? Ecco come si scrive
Solitamente i monosillabi derivati da apocope sillabica, troncamento, vanno accentati. Questo è il caso di “ché”, forma abbreviata per “perché” ... «Skuola.net, Oct 13»
4
Back formations
Apocope, i.e. clipping off the final syllable(s) from an existing word, as in exam from examination, fax from facsimile, gym from gymnasium, perk ... «Malaysia Star, May 12»
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Fate, Fortune, and Timon of Athens: Reinterpreting The Senecan …
Employing allegory, epanaphora, feminine line, rhyming couplet, trochaic inversion, pleonastic doublet, and apocope, Apemantus' speech characterizes him as ... «Student Pulse, Jan 12»
6
99 ways to tell a story
Cockney and Hellenisms give way to Paragogue, Apocope, Apheresis and Epenthesis (each of which describes morphological development, ... «Globe and Mail, Nov 09»
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Someday, I Will Copyedit The Great American Novel
I will use the correct "duct tape," and not the oft-seen apocope "duck tape." The Great American Novel's editor will expect no less of me, for his ... «The Onion, Jun 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Apocope [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/apocope>. Apr 2024 ».
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