syncope

== English == === Alternative forms === syncopé (obsolete) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin syncopē, from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ), from συγκόπτω (sunkóptō, “cut up”) + -η (-ē, nominalization suffix), from σύν (sún, “beside, with”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “strike, cut off”). Partly continues the (near-)doublets syncopis and sincopin, both from the Old French sincopin (“faintness”) (itself from Late Latin accusative syncopen), with the pathological meaning "a loss of consciousness accompanied by a weak pulse", attested from the fifteenth century. Usage in the form syncope, with the phonological meaning "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds or letters" attested from the 1520s. Syncopis and sincopin were "re-Latinized" to the form syncope in English in the sixteenth century. The musical usage first occurs after the 1660s, following the musical usage of syncopation and syncopate. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/ Hyphenation: syn‧co‧pe === Noun === syncope (countable and uncountable, plural syncopes) (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable. Antonym: epenthesis Hypernym: metaplasm Hyponyms: contraction; haplology, haplogy Coordinate term: apocope (biology, medicine) A loss of consciousness when fainting. Synonyms: swoon, faint, fainting, lipothymia Coordinate terms: near-syncope, presyncope, pre-syncope, pseudosyncope (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “syncope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “syncope”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ). === Pronunciation === === Noun === syncope f (plural syncopes, diminutive syncopetje n) (linguistics, phonology, prosody) the loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word (for example the change of Dutch veder in veer "feather"); syncope (pathology) a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon; syncope (music) a missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation; syncope == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɛ̃.kɔp/ === Noun === syncope f (plural syncopes) syncope, fainting (phonetics) syncope Antonyms: aphérèse, apocope, procope (music) syncope === Further reading === “syncope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Portuguese == === Noun === syncope f (plural syncopes) pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of síncope