A final vowel is sometimes elided before another vowel, and its place indicated by the apostrophe, (').

δι'prep, for δια, with final letter elided, § 22. 14. αὐτοῦadj.

for ἀλλά, final vowel elided, § 22.

At the death of Pepin of Heristal, the Neustrians had drawn into alliance with them, for their war against the Austrasians, this Duke Elides, to whom they gave, as it appears, the title of king.

"Elides had taken equally great pains to kindle the pious courage of the Aquitanians; he spread amongst his troops a rumor that he had but lately received as a present from Pope Gregory II.

The constant effort in Negro dialect is to elide all troublesome consonants and sounds.

As you will observe, I have not elided the h's.

Just as is recounted of the river Alpheus of Elide, which disappears in channels under the sea to reappear in Sicily at the fountain of Arethusa, so there may exist in the mountains of this continent a vast network of subterranean passages in such wise that the waters produced by the rains we have mentioned may be collected.

Originally feminine nouns beginning with a vowel took the feminine ma before them, the vowel of ma being elided.