The Good Oil Word of the Day

The word for today is…

aphaeresis (noun) -

: the loss of one or more sounds or letters at the beginning of a word (as in round for around)

Source : Merriam-Webster

Etymology : Borrowed from Late Latin, borrowed from Greek aphaíresis "taking away, removal, dropping of a letter or sound from the beginning of a word," from aphaire-, stem of aphairéō, aphaireîn "to take away" (from aph-, assimilated variant of apo- apo- + hairéō, haireîn "to take, grasp," of obscure origin) + -sis -sis. The word was first used in 1550.

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