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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun aphesis has 1 sense
- aphesis(n = noun.process) - the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'; is a kind of deletion, omission
Derived form adjective aphetic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
aphesis, n. [Gr. a letting go; + to let go.].
The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
aphesis, n. (pl. apheses) the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word (e.g. of e from esquire to form squire).
Derivative
aphetic adj. aphetically adv.
Etymology
Gk, = letting go (as APO-, hiemi send)