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English
Etymology
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
procope (uncountable)
- (phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Apheresis, the loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word.
- Synonyms: apheresis, aphesis
Coordinate terms
- apocope (“loss or omission of a sound from the end of a word”)
- syncope (“loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word”)
Translations
loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word