Usually means: Omission of initial sound, syllable.
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  1. aphesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. aphesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aphesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aphesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aphesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. aphesis: Wordnik
  7. aphesis: Wiktionary
  8. aphesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aphesis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. aphesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Aphesis, aphesis: Dictionary.com
  12. Aphesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Aphesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. aphesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. aphesis: Rhymezone
  16. Aphesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. aphesis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. aphesis: FreeDictionary.org
  19. aphesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. aphesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. aphesis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. aphesis: Merriam-Webster

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  1. APHESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aphesis)

▸ noun:  (phonetics, linguistics, prosody) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.

Similar:
apocope, syncope, aphonia, aphrasia, nonpronunciation, anacrusis, atonic, vowellessness, aglossia, anarthria, more...

Opposite:
prosthesis, addition, augmentation

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Similar:
apocope, syncope, aphonia, aphrasia, nonpronunciation, anacrusis, atonic, vowellessness, aglossia, anarthria, more...

Opposite:
prosthesis, addition, augmentation



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