anaptyctic

adjective

an·​ap·​tyc·​tic

¦anəp¦tiktik,

¦aˌnap-

variants or less commonly anaptyctical

-ktə̇kəl

: relating to or resulting from anaptyxis

development of an anaptyctic vowel

Word History

Etymology

from New Latin anaptyxis, after such pairs as Late Latin syntaxis syntax: English syntactic, syntactical

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

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