Apocopes

Apokope ( Greek ἀποκοπή apokopé , German 'cut off' , 'omission') stands for:

• Apocope (music) , sudden break in a melody or a sentence in the music
• Apokope (rhetoric) , the omission of sounds at the end of a word for metrical or rhetorical reasons
• Apokope (linguistics) , the elimination of sounds at the end of a word in the development of language history

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Wiktionary: Apokope  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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