Associations to the word «Apocope»

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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky