apocopate

Meanings

Adjective

• Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable

Verb

• To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.
• To undergo apocope.

Noun

• A verb form of the prefix conjugation in Semitic which bears no final vowel and is considered the original perfective, but often called jussive mood.

Related

Similar words

• apocopic, clipped, shortened, abbreviated

Origin

• From Latin apocopo ("cut off"), from Ancient Greek ἀποκόπτω ("cut off").