Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Aphaeresis \A*ph[ae]r"e*sis\ (?; 277), n. [L.]
   Same as {Apheresis}.

Source : WordNet®

aphaeresis
     n : (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in
         `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn: {apheresis}]