Clipping (morphology)
IN MORPHOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS, THE REDUCTION OF A WORD TO ONE OF ITS PARTS
Clipped word; Clipping (lexicography); Shortening (grammar); Shortenings; Clipped syntax
In linguistics, clipping, also called truncation or shortening, is word formation by removing some segments of an existing word to create a synonym. Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase.