anaptyctic
adjective
an·ap·tyc·tic
\¦anəp¦tiktik, ¦aˌnap-\
variants: less commonly
anaptyctical
\-ktə̇kəl\Definition of anaptyctic
: relating to or resulting from anaptyxis development of an anaptyctic vowel
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Origin and Etymology of anaptyctic
from New Latin anaptyxis, after such pairs as Late Latin syntaxis syntax: English syntactic, syntactical
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