Definition of anaptyctic
:relating to or resulting from anaptyxis
- development of an anaptyctic vowel
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anaptyctic
adjective
an·ap·tyc·tic
\
¦anəp¦tiktik
,
¦aˌnap-
\
variants:
or less commonly
anaptyctical
\-ktə̇kəl\
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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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