Apocope or apheresis?
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Here are two that would be sorely missed if they did not exist.
You can't imagine anyone explaining to you that they would rather take the metro than the bus to go to work and ride a velocipede rather than a coach, right?
It is because apocope and apheresis have gone through this.
The first, from the Greek apokope (apo, to cut, and koptein, to slice, strike), like the second, from the Greek aphairesis (removing) are in fact
processes consisting in removing one of its parts from a word
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Curiously, their etymology does not tell us that the apocope removes the end of the word, while apheresis is its opposite since it removes the beginning.
Bike, bus, TV, radio ...
Thus metro, bicycle, are apocopes, bus and car apheresis.
These latter are much less numerous than the apocopes which abound in our conversation: tele [vision], philosophy [sophie], math [ematic], tire [matic], gynecologist [logue], radio [graphy], photo [graphy], kilo [gram], cine [matograph]…
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