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Latest revision as of 23:59, 6 October 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia Etymology[edit] Late Latin syncope, from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopē), from σύν (sin) + κόπτω (koptein, "strike, cut off"). Pronunciation[edit] - IPA(key): /ˈsɪŋkəpi/
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- Hyphenation: syn‧co‧pe
syncope (plural syncopes) - 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.
- (prosody) A missing 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.
- A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
Synonyms[edit] Hypernyms[edit] Derived terms[edit] Related terms[edit] Translations[edit] missed beat or off-beat stress External links[edit] Pronunciation[edit] syncope f (plural syncopes) - syncope, fainting
- (linguistics) syncope
- (music) syncope
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