aphesis
/ˈæ.fə.sɪs/
词源链
- 英语English
aphesis
词源说明
Attested since 1880. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄφεσις (áphesis, “letting go”), from ἀφίημι (aphíēmi), from ἀπο- (apo-, “off”) + ἵημι (híēmi, “send forth”).
释义
名词noun
- 1(phonetics, linguistics, prosody, rhetoric) The loss of the initial unstressed vowel of a word.