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Webster 1913 Edition
Syncope
Syn′co-pe
,Noun.
[L.
syncope
, syncopa
, Gr. [GREEK] a cutting up, a syncope; akin to [GREEK] to beat together, to cut up, cut short, weavy; σύν
with + [GREEK] to strike, cut.] 1.
(Gram.)
An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne’er for never, ev'ry for every.
4.
A pause or cessation; suspension.
[R.]
Revely, and dance, and show,
Suffer a
Suffer a
syncope
and solemn pause. Cowper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Syncope
SYN'COPE
Definition 2024
syncope
syncope
See also: syncopé
English
Alternative forms
- syncopé (obsolete)
Noun
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.
- 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
- (prosody, phonology) The absence of a 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
Hypernyms
- (prosody): metaplasm
Derived terms
Terms derived from syncope
Translations
loss of consciousness
absence of a sound
missed beat or off-beat stress
External links
- syncope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- syncope in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Portuguese
Noun
syncope f (plural syncopes)
- Obsolete spelling of síncope (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).