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Princeton's WordNet
apheticadjective
produced by aphesis
Wiktionary
apheticadjective
Of, relating to, or formed by aphesis.
"'Pon" is an aphetic form of "upon".
apheticadjective
Of or relating to the apheta; life-giving.
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aphetic
Aphetic refers to the linguistic process of removing the initial unstressed syllable or sound from a word to form a shorter word. This process is used in the development and evolution of languages. For example, the word "alone" is an aphetic form of the old English word "allone".
Webster Dictionary
Apheticadjective
shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form
Etymology: [Gr. letting go, fr. to let go.]
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hepatic
caphite
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of aphetic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of aphetic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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