procope

Learned borrowing from Late Latin procopē, via Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ) from verb προκόπτω (prokóptō, “to cut away in front; forward, advance”), προ- (pro-, “before; in front”) +‎ κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

procope (uncountable)

1. (phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Apheresis, the loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word.

   Synonyms: apheresis, aphesis

• apocope (“loss or omission of a sound from the end of a word”)
• syncope (“loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word”)