DICTIONARY ENTRY
4 SYLLABLES
aphaeresis
/ə'fɛrɪsɪs/ · əfɛrɪsɪs
Aphaeresis has 4 syllables: a · phaer · e · sis.
a
01
phaer
02
e
03
sis
04
noun. (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'.
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