Definitions from Wiktionary (ecthlipsis)
▸ noun: (phonology) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
▸ noun: (phonology, classics) In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
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▸ noun: (phonology) The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
▸ noun: (phonology, classics) In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
Similar:
apheresis,
elision,
eclipsis,
clipping,
epithesis,
synalepha,
synaeresis,
omission,
crasis,
aphthong,
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