Standard Lemma guide
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noun
The dropping out or suppression of a consonant from a word, with or without a vowel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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noun
The dropping out or suppression of a consonant from a word, with or without a vowel.
In Latin, the elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκθλιψις (ékthlipsis).
