syncope
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound…
The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
- […]; on the contrary, all syllables subject in the same way to elision, apocope, syncope, and slurring must have the same degree of stress (i.e. they must be alike unaccented) whether preceded by short or by long root-syllables.
A loss of consciousness when fainting.
- Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.
- […]the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for syncope. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA