apheretic

• Adjectif (surtout linguistique) qui se rapporte à l'aphérèse, c'est-à-dire à la chute d'un son ou d'une syllabe au début d'un mot, ou qui est caractérisé par ce phénomène.

An obsolete adjective relating to or characterized by aphaeresis (the loss of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word).

1. Relating to aphaeresisC2formal

   Pertaining to or formed by aphaeresis, which is the loss of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word.

   Aphérétique

   • The word 'round' is an apheretic form of 'around'.
   • Linguists study apheretic processes in language evolution.
   • The apheretic shortening of 'because' to 'cause' is common in informal speech.

   Synonymesaphaereticaphetic