| In literature apocope is confined to poetry, but in the prose inscriptions of the dialects it is frequent. |
| The latter indicates the dropping of a vowel or syllable in medial position, and is not a synonym for apocope. |
| In these dialects many words end in a consonant but they cannot be seen as an apocope of an Italian word. |
| For it is easy to show that with regard to syncope, apocope, elision, and slurring they are treated quite in the same way. |
| You will understand that it has one, when I tell you that we have here a very curious case of apocope. |
| He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope, which snips off the last part of a word. |
