Word.ws English Dictionary

apocopate

/əˈpɒkəpət/

apocopate adjective: shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable.

Adjective

apocopate (not comparable)

  1. Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable

Verb

apocopate (third-person singular simple present apocopates, present participle apocopating, simple past and past participle apocopated)

  1. To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.
    • The particles which apocopate the final vowel of the aorist are of two kinds: I. Those which apocopate the final vowel of one verb only. II. Those which apocopate the final vowel of two verbs.1904, Robert Sterling, A Grammar of the Arabic Language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, →OCLC, page 229
  2. (intransitive) To undergo apocope.
    • "Ciento" apocopates to "cien" before nouns or numbers larger than itself.1999, Gene Hammitt, Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat, William Stivers, The Best Test Preparation for the SAT II, Subject Test: Spanish, Piscataway, NJ: Research & Education Association, →ISBN, page R-195

Noun

apocopate (uncountable)

  1. A verb form of the prefix conjugation in Semitic which bears no final vowel and is considered the original perfective, but often called jussive mood.

Synonyms of apocopate

All synonyms of apocopate

Forms of apocopate

third-person singular presentapocopates
present participleapocopating
past participleapocopated
pastapocopated

Origin of apocopate

From Latin apocopātus (“cut off”), from Ancient Greek ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).

Questions about apocopate

What does apocopate mean?
Apocopate means shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable.
What part of speech is apocopate?
Apocopate can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce apocopate?
Apocopate is pronounced /əˈpɒkəpət/ (UK).

Words near apocopate in the dictionary

  1. apocodeine
  2. apocolpia
  3. apocolpial
  4. apocolpium
  5. apocolypse
  6. apocopate
  7. apocopated
  8. apocopates
  9. apocopating
  10. apocopation
  11. apocopations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apocopate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Scelultrix-apocopate.wav.

Cite this entry: “apocopate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/apocopate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.