Usually means: Shortening of a word's end.
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  1. apocopation: Collins English Dictionary
  2. apocopation: Wordnik
  3. apocopation: Wiktionary
  4. Apocopation, apocopation: Dictionary.com
  5. Apocopation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. apocopation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Apocopation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. apocopation: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Apocopation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (linguistics) A word formed by removing the end of a longer word.

Similar:
affrication, auslaut, aposiopesis, cannibalism, vyanjanabhakti, oxytone, correption, occlusion, eclipsis, ling, more...

Opposite:
epenthesis, prosthesis, addition

Types:
truncation, abridgement, clipping, shortening, ellipsis, more...

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Similar:
affrication, auslaut, aposiopesis, cannibalism, vyanjanabhakti, oxytone, correption, occlusion, eclipsis, ling, more...

Opposite:
epenthesis, prosthesis, addition

Types:
truncation, abridgement, clipping, shortening, ellipsis, more...



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