In phonology, apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel. In a broader sense, the term can refer to the loss of any final sound...

to eliminate final consonants in Vulgar Latin, either by dropping them (apocope) or adding a vowel after them (epenthesis). Many final consonants were...

Rhine Franconian dialects, Palatine German has e-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final -e), n-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final n in the suffix -en) and...

an original heavy syllable, the final vowel is often reduced or lost (apocope). The former is common in southern Norrland dialects, as in the infinitive...

sometimes jokingly pronounced "haplogy". Elision, aphaeresis, syncope, and apocope: All are losses of sounds. Elision is the loss of unstressed sounds, aphaeresis...

Spanish adjectives are similar to those in most other Indo-European languages. They are generally postpositive, and they agree in both gender and number...

Macanese patois (endonym: Patuá) is a Portuguese-based creole language with a substrate from Cantonese, Malay and Sinhala, which was originally spoken...

sixth century CE. It is marked by the loss of Brittonic final syllables (apocope) and the eventual loss of compositional vowels in compound words (syncope)...

mainly consists of the following types: Final clipping, which may include apocope Initial clipping, which may include apheresis, or procope Medial clipping...

ending there at all. This was caused by a sound change called high vowel apocope, which occurred in the prehistory of Old English. Short -i and -u disappeared...