aphetic

[uh-fet-ik]

adjective

Historical Linguistics.

1. pertaining to or due to aphesis.

Other Word Forms

• aphetically adverb
• nonaphetic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of aphetic¹

First recorded in 1875–80; from Greek áphet(os) “freed, discharged” ( aphe- + -tos past participle suffix) + -ic; aphesis

Example Sentences

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

From Project Gutenberg

Sewer, an attendant at table, aphetic for Old Fr. asseour, a setter, is now a very rare name.

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We have it also, via Old French, in abet, whence the aphetic bet, originally to egg on.

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The name Cotton is sometimes from the dative plural of the same word, though, when of French origin, it represents Colon, dim. of Cot, aphetic for Jacot.

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Bennet, an exorcist, and Collet, aphetic for acolyte.

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