Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /syŋkopí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syŋkopí/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sĩɡopí/

Noun

συγκοπή • ‎(sunkopḗ) f ‎(genitive συγκοπῆς); first declension

1. a cutting up, cutting into small pieces
   • Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 6
   • Longinus 42
   1. (grammar) syncope, cutting a word short by striking out one or more letters
      • Plutarch, Moralia 2.1011.E
2. collision
   • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 22
3. sudden loss of strength, syncope
   • Aretaeus of Cappadocia, De causis et signis acutorum morborum 2.3
   • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 15

Inflection

References

• συγκοπή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συγκοπή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Noun

συγκοπή • ‎(synkopí) f ‎(plural συγκοπές)

1. (medicine) syncope, fainting, missed heartbeats
2. (music) syncopation
3. (grammar) syncope, contraction

Declension