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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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aphesis

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Noun
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aph=e=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun aphesis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

aphesisn. [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)
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