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syncope
English
Alternative forms
- syncopé (obsolete)
Etymology
Late Latin syncope, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sunkop?), from ???????? (sunkópt?, “cut up”) + -? (-?, “nominalization suffix”), from ??? (sún, “beside, with”) + ????? (kópt?, “strike, cut off”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s??.k?.pi/
- Hyphenation: syn?co?pe
Noun
syncope (countable and uncountable, plural syncopes)
- (linguistics, phonology, prosody) The loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable. For example, the change of cannot to can't, never to ne'er, Latin calidus to caldus, or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester pronounced Leister or Lester, and Worcester pronounced Wooster).
- Antonym: epenthesis
- (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
- (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
Usage notes
Usage in the form syncope, with the phonological meaning "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds or letters" attested from the 1520's. Doublets of said syncope with the form 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. Said syncopis/sincopin was "relatinized" to the form syncope in English in the sixteenth century, after the linguistic use of that word was already in use. The musical usage first occurs after the 1660's, following the musical usage of syncopation and syncopate.
Synonyms
- (swoon): faint, fainting, lipothymia
Hypernyms
- (prosody): metaplasm
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- syncope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- syncope in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (sunkop?).
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 ??????? (sunkop?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??.k?p/
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 (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
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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apocope
English
Etymology
From Late Latin apocop?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (apokop?), ???????? (apokópt?, “cut off”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a?po?co?pe
- IPA(key): /?.?p?.k?.pi/
Noun
apocope (plural apocopes)
- (phonetics, prosody, narrow sense) The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
- Coordinate terms: apheresis, paragoge, syncope
- (loosely) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
- Antonym: procope
Related terms
- apocopate
- apocopation
- apocopic
Translations
Further reading
- apocope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.p?.k?p/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (apokop?).
Noun
apocope f (plural apocopes)
- (phonetics) apocope
- Antonyms: syncope, aphérèse
Derived terms
- apocoper
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
apocope
- first/third-person singular present indicative of apocoper
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of apocoper
- second-person singular imperative of apocoper
Further reading
- “apocope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (apokop?).
Noun
apocope f (plural apocopi)
- apocope
- amputation
Related terms
- apocopare
Spanish
Verb
apocope
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of apocopar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of apocopar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of apocopar.
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