Category:French clippings

French words that were formed from another word by removing part of it, but without changing the part of speech.

• Category:French apocopic forms:French words that underwentapocope,thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable(s) from their end.
• Category:French syncopic forms:French words that underwentsyncope,thus their origin involved a loss or omission of a sound or syllable from their interior.