the loss of the end of a word, e.g. historically in sing from Old English singan, and in modern English in shortened forms such as marge from margarine
[via late Latin from Greek apocopē cutting off, from apokoptein to cut off]
| 单词 | apocope |
| 释义 | apocope |
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