aphaeresis apexed • aphaeretic · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · aphaeresis · · Text Latin · · Script 10 · · Length Definitions · · · (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'. Synonyms: apheresis. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · apheresis · · Synonym 1 Characters · · a latin small letter a U+0061 e latin small letter e U+0065 h latin small letter h U+0068 i latin small letter i U+0069 p latin small letter p U+0070 r latin small letter r U+0072 s latin small letter s U+0073