apocopate
Meanings
adj
- Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable
verb
- To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.
- To undergo apocope.
noun
- A verb form of the prefix conjugation in Semitic which bears no final vowel and is considered the original perfective, but often called jussive mood.
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Etymology
From Latin apocopātus (“cut off”), from Ancient Greek ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
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