Definitions for aphesis

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aphesis aph·e·sis

Spelling: [af-uh-sis]

IPA: /ˈæf ə sɪs/

Aphesis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in aphesis (aehipss).

Definitions for aphesis

noun

1. the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable, as in the formation of the word slant from aslant.

Origin of aphesis

1880; Greek áphesis a letting go, equivalent to aphe- (variant stem of aphiénai to let go, set free; ap- ap-² + hiénai to send) + -sis -s

Examples for aphesis

But confusion with the article is not necessary in order to bring about aphesis.

aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later.

This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French.