[L., a. Gr. ἀποκοπή a cutting off, f. ἀποκόπ-τ-ειν to cut off.] The cutting off or omission of the last letter or syllable of a word.
Hence Apocopic a.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., B ij a. Apocope … as for vamos nos, they say vamonos.
1711. J. Greenwood, Eng. Gram., 196. Hence [from mis] comes the French Preposition Mes, and by an Apocope Me, as in mecontent.
1860. Farrar, Orig. Lang., viii. 175. Words and roots in a violent state of fusion and apocope.
