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

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery