sinkope

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ). Doublet of sinkop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɪnˈkope]
• Hyphenation: sin‧ko‧pé

Noun

sinkopé (first-person possessive sinkopeku, second-person possessive sinkopemu, third-person possessive sinkopenya)

1. (linguistics, phonology, prosody) syncope: the loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

Further reading

• “sinkope” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.