Crossword-Solution: APOCOPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apocope | n. | The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word. |
| Apocope | n. | A cutting off; abscission. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “APOCOPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deletion of last syllable. | 1 answer |
| Loss of a word's ending | 1 answer |
| Omission of part of a word | 1 answer |
| Omission of terminal sounds that produces a new word, as in "obituary" becoming "obit" | 1 answer |
| Omission of the last syllable of a word. | 1 answer |
| abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds | 1 answer |
| omission of the final sound or sounds of a word | 1 answer |
| Omission of a syllable | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APOCOPE (5)
See Apocope.] (Gram.) To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.
The traveller will hear in every part of Arabia that some distant tribe preserves the linguistic purity of its ancestors, uses final vowels with the noun, and rejects the addition of the pronoun which apocope in the verb now renders necessary.[FN#45] But I greatly doubt the existence of such a race of philologists.
The final vowel, suffering apocope, would leave Zarabt equally applicable to the first person singular and the second person singular masculine.
The God of light, Orus, was often styled Az-El; whence we meet with many places named Azelis, Azilis, Azila, and by apocope, Zelis, Zela, and Zeleia.
See Apocope.] (Gram.) Defn: To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1950–2019).