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aphetic
[ uh-fet-ik ]
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- a·pheti·cal·ly adverb
- nona·phetic adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
For limner we find in the 15th century lumner and luminour, which is aphetic for alluminour, or enlumineur.
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The name Turney, well known in Nottingham, is from the town of Tournay, or is aphetic for attorney.
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The tender of a ship or of a locomotive is the attender, and taint is aphetic for attaint, Fr.
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