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Aphetic

Part of speech: adjective

Sense: Related to or characterized by aphesis, the loss or omission of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word.

Usage: The term "aphetic" is primarily used in linguistics and is often applied to describe linguistic phenomena or processes.

Sample sentence 1: The word "cab" is an aphetic form of the word "taxicab".

Sample sentence 2: In Old English, "stan" was an aphetic form of "stanas", meaning "stones".