Associations to the word «Apocope»
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Wiktionary
APOCOPE, noun. (prosody) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
Dictionary definition
APOCOPE, noun. Abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope".
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.