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Definition: APOCOPATION |
APOCOPATIONNoun1. Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated. |
| Language | Translations for "APOCOPATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | apócope (apocope). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Some languages have apocopations internalized as mandatory forms. In Spanish, for instance, many adjectives that come before the noun lose the ending when they precede a noun in the masculine singular form. The word uno (one) thus becomes un and grande (big) becomes gran. In these cases, one would say un mundo (one world) rather than *uno mundo, and gran taco (big taco), rather than *grande taco.
In many languages, apocopation can be used to form a shorter synonym, a sort of spoken abbreviation, of a word, and in many it is used to form an informal name of something. In French, for instance, réac is used as short for réactionnaire and démo means démonstration. Japanese shorten their name for McDonald's, Makudonarudo, into Makudo, and Kentaki Furaido Chikin, or Kentucky Fried Chicken, is referred to as Kenfuraido in daily speech. George Orwell was aware of the power of apocopation when he designed Newspeak; saying the four-letter Nazi rather than the full name Nationalsozialist allowed one to make a quick reference to the party without having to go over the words and think about what the concept implied: national, socialism. For this reason Newspeak aimed for bisyllabic words.
Apocopation is regularly done with the diminutive forms of names: Tom for Thomas, Steve for Stephan, Josh for Joshua, Matt for Matthew, Don for Donald, Tony for Anthony, Alex for Alexander, Andy for Andrew, Meg for Meghan, Liz for Elizabeth.
Some apocopations in English:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Apocopation."
| Words rhyming with "APOCOPATION" (pronounced 'A*poc`o*pa"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-o-o-p-p-t" | |
-3 letters: cooption, panoptic. | |
-4 letters: appoint, captain, caption, paction, tapioca. | |
-5 letters: action, anopia, atonic, atopic, capita, captan, cation, catnap, catnip, octopi, option, papain, patina, pinata, potion, taipan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 50 4F 43 4F 50 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. --- -.-. --- .--. .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010000 01001111 01000011 01001111 01010000 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A P O C O P A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0050 004F 0043 004F 0050 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3550493749503554434948 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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