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apocope

noun
🔊/əˈpɒkəpi/
🔊/əˈpɑːkəpi/
[uncountable] (phonetics语音学)
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  1. the dropping of the last sound or sounds of a word, for example when cup of tea becomes cuppa tea 尾音脱落；词尾音消失compare syncope
    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from late Latin, from Greek apokoptein ‘cut off’, from apo- ‘from’ + koptein ‘to cut’.