syncope

• syncopé (obsolete)

Late Latin syncope, from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ), from σύν (sún) + κόπτω (kóptō, “strike, cut off”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋkəpi/

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• Hyphenation: syn‧co‧pe

syncope (countable and uncountable, plural syncopes)

1. (pathology) A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
   • 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise

     the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.

2. (prosody, phonology) The loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't, never to ne'er, or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester).
3. (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

• (swoon): faint, fainting, lipothymia

• (prosody): metaplasm

• syncope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• syncope in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ).

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.kɔp/

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syncope f (plural syncopes)

1. syncope, fainting
2. (phonetics) syncope

   Antonyms: aphérèse, apocope, procope

3. (music) syncope

• “syncope” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

syncope f (plural syncopes)

1. Obsolete spelling of síncope (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).