Aphetic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aphetic \A*phet"ic\, a. [Gr. ? letting go, fr. ? to let go.]
     Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the
     beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. --
     {A*phet"ic*al*ly}, adv. --New Eng. Dict.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aphetic
       adj : produced by aphesis