apocopar

From apócope +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: a‧po‧co‧par

apocopar (first-person singular present apocopo, first-person singular preterite apocopei, past participle apocopado)

1. (transitive, linguistics) to apocopate (to shorten by apocope)

• “apocopar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “apocopar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “apocopar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “apocopar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Medieval Latin apocopāre (“to cut off”).

• IPA^(key): /apokoˈpaɾ/ [a.po.koˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧po‧co‧par

apocopar (first-person singular present apocopo, first-person singular preterite apocopé, past participle apocopado)

1. (transitive) to apocopate

• “apocopar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025