syncope

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪŋkəpi/

Noun

syncope

1. (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.

2. (prosody, phonology) The loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't, never to ne'er, or the pronunciation of the -cester ending in placenames as -ster (for example, Leicester).
3. (music) A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

Synonyms

• (swoon) faint, fainting, lipothymia

Translations

• French: syncope, pâmoison
• German: Synkope
• Italian: sincope
• Portuguese: síncope
• Russian: о́бморок
• Spanish: síncope, soponcio (colloquial)

Translations

• French: syncope
• German: Synkope
• Portuguese: síncope
• Russian: синко́па
• Spanish: síncope

Translations

• German: Synkope
• Russian: синко́па
• Spanish: síncope

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