Apocope

As apocope (from Greek ἀποκοπή, truncation ',' omission ' ) is called in linguistics the omission of speech sounds at the end of the word. A apocope may occur in the course of voice or sound change or be used as a rhetorical figure.

A currently taking place in the German apocope is the omission of "e", which is well advanced in the vernacular, and has penetrated to varying degrees in the written language. So is almost always " I " instead of " I " spoken; is usually written yet " I ".

The apocope of the German verb endings applies - legally controversial - as a possible reason for the Upper German Präteritumsschwund.

In the morphology of an apocope denotes a word formation due to the elimination of word components, such as French cinéma instead cinématographe.