syncope

See also: syncopé

English

Alternative forms

• syncopé (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋkəpi/

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• Hyphenation: syn‧co‧pe

Noun

syncope (plural syncopes)

1. 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 absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
3. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

Synonyms

• (swoon): faint, fainting

Hypernyms

• (prosody): metaplasm

Derived terms

Terms derived from syncope

• nonsyncopated
• presyncope
• pre-syncope
• syncopal

• syncopate
• syncopation
• syncopic

• syncopist
• syncopize
• unsyncopated

Translations

loss of consciousness

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 昏厥 (zh) (hūnjué), 暈厥 (zh), 晕厥 (zh) (yūnjué)

• Czech: mdloba f
• Finnish: pyörtyminen (fi), synkopee
• French: syncope (fr) f, pâmoison (fr) f
• German: Synkope (de) f
• Greek: λιποθυμία (el) f (lipothymía)

• Italian: sincope (it)
• Japanese: 気絶 (きぜつ, kizetsu)
• Persian: سنکوپ‎ (fa) (sankup), غش‎ (fa) (qaš)
• Portuguese: síncope (pt) f
• Russian: о́бморок (ru) m (óbmorok), синко́па (ru) f (sinkópa)
• Scottish Gaelic: fannachadh m
• Spanish: síncope (es) m

absence of a sound

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中略語, 中略语 (zhōnglüèyǔ)

• Finnish: sisäheitto, synkopee
• German: Synkope (de) f
• Japanese: 語中音消失 (ごちゅうおんしょうしつ, gochūon shōshitsu)

• Malay: lenyap bunyi, sinkope
• Portuguese: síncope (pt) m
• Russian: синко́па (ru) f (sinkópa)
• Spanish: síncope (es) m
• Swedish: synkope (sv)

missed beat or off-beat stress

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: synkopa (cs) f
• Finnish: synkooppi (fi)
• German: Synkope (de) f

• Greek: συγκοπή (el) f (sygkopí)
• Icelandic: brottfall (is) n
• Russian: синко́па (ru) f (sinkópa)
• Spanish: síncope (es) m
• Swedish: synkop (sv) c

Further reading

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.kɔp/

Noun

syncope f (plural syncopes)

1. syncope, fainting
2. (linguistics) syncope
3. (music) syncope

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Noun

syncope f (plural syncopes)

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