procope
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin procopē, via Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ) from verb προκόπτω (prokóptō, “to cut away in front; forward, advance”), προ- (pro-, “before; in front”) κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).
Noun
[edit]procope (uncountable)
- (phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Synonym of apheresis.
Translations
[edit]loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kep-
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
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