Apheresis (phonetics)

Apheresis (from the Greek ἀφαίρεσις "to remove, take away" aphaeresis) is the loss of a sound or group of sounds at the beginning of a word. This can occur in the patrimonial evolution of a word, for example, from Latin to Spanish:

Readerile أعربية أن.

The apheresis can be of an initial letter; for example, the loss of the p in the word psychology > psychology.

More specifically, apheresis is a metaplasm where the loss or disappearance of one or several phonemes or syllables occurs at the beginning of some words (when the loss occurs at the end of the word it is called an apocope, and if the loss has place in the middle of the word is called a syncopation).

Apheresis in poetry

Apheresis is a poetic resource consisting of the deletion of a syllable at the beginning of a word. This resource was common in poetry in Spanish until Romanticism, and widely used in the Golden Age, since the metric requirement in the different stanzas led to this type of licenses and freedoms; Over time, it fell into disuse: nowadays, it is very rare to find it and it constitutes when it is given a feature of strangeness more than a metrical resource.