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See also: syncopé
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- syncopé (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Late Latin syncope, from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ), from σύν (sún) + κόπτω (kóptō, “strike, cut off”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
syncope (countable and uncountable, plural syncopes)
- (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.
- 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
- (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).
- (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
Synonyms[edit]
- (swoon): faint, fainting, lipothymia
Hypernyms[edit]
- (prosody): metaplasm
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
loss of consciousness
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absence of a sound
missed beat or off-beat stress
Further reading[edit]
- syncope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- syncope in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
syncope f (plural syncopes)
Further reading[edit]
- “syncope” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
syncope f (plural syncopes)
- Obsolete spelling of síncope (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).
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