Associations to the word «Aphaeresis»

Wiktionary

APHAERESIS, noun. (UK) (Canadian) Alternative spelling of apheresis

Dictionary definition

APHAERESIS, noun. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne