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Aphaeresis

Definition: Aphaeresis

Aphaeresis

Noun

1. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Aphaeresis \A*ph[ae]r"e*sis\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Aphaeresis

Synonym: apheresis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aphaeresis

English words defined with "aphaeresis": aphaeretic, apheretic. (references)
Etymologies containing "aphaeresis": Apheresis. (references)

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Modern Translations: Aphaeresis

Language Translations for "aphaeresis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

aferezã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aféresis (aphesis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Aphaeresis

Misspellings

"Aphaeresis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aphaaeresis, Aphareus, aphersis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Aphaeresis"

Words rhyming with "aphaeresis" (pronounced 'A*ph[ae]r"e*sis'): Abiogenesis, Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, Adipolysis, AEsthesis, Agamogenesis, Agenesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Amphigenesis, Amylogenesis, Amylolysis, Anabasis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anagnorisis, Anamnesis, Anamorphosis, Anapophysis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Ankylostomiasis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Anthropomorphosis, Antimetathesis, Antiperistasis, Antiphrasis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Antithesis, Aparithmesis, Apheresis, Aphesis, Apodosis, Aponeurosis, Apophasis, Apophysis, Aposiopesis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Aphaeresis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: apheresis, pharisees.

-2 letters: parishes, perishes, pharisee, reshapes, sharpies, spiraeas.

-3 letters: aperies, apheses, aphesis, asperse, aspires, harpies, hearses, heiress, pareses, paresis, pariahs, parises, phrases, praises, raphias, raspish, reshape, reships, sarapes, serapes, seraphs, shapers, sharpie, sherpas, spahees, spheres, spiraea, spireas.

-4 letters: aeries, arises, ashier, aspers, aspire, aspish, easier, easies, erases, espies, haeres, harass, hearse, herpes, hisser.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: paresthesia.

 

+2 letters: paraesthesia, paresthesias.

 

+3 letters: arsphenamines, laureateships, paraesthesias, phalansteries.

 

+4 letters: headmastership, hyperaesthesia, hyperparasites, plasmapheresis.

 

+5 letters: headmasterships, hyperaesthesias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Aphaeresis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 70 68 61 65 72 65 73 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .--.    ....    .-    .    .-.    .    ...    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110000 01101000 01100001 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#112 &#104 &#97 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0070 0068 0061 0065 0072 0065 0073 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35827467718471857585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Aphaeresis"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcireromân, rumano

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglezesc, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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