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aphetic

[ uh-fet-ik ]

adjective

, Historical Linguistics.
  1. pertaining to or due to aphesis.


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Other Words From

  • a·pheti·cal·ly adverb
  • nona·phetic adjective
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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
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

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

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