syncope

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• Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin syncopē, from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ), from συγκόπτω (sunkóptō, “cut up”) + -η (-ē, nominalization suffix), from σύν (sún, “beside, with”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “strike, cut off”). Partly continues the (near-)doublets 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. Usage in the form syncope, with the phonological meaning "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds or letters" attested from the 1520s. Syncopis and sincopin were "re-Latinized" to the form syncope in English in the sixteenth century. The musical usage first occurs after the 1660s, following the musical usage of syncopation and syncopate.

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: sinkopë — absence of a sound
• Breton: meztroc'h — absence of a sound
• Bulgarian: синко́п (sinkóp) — absence of a sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 中略語 /中略语 (zhōnglüèyǔ) — absence of a sound
• Czech: synkopa — absence of a sound
• Danish: synkope — absence of a sound
• Dutch: syncope — absence of a sound
• Finnish: sisäheitto — absence of a sound
• Finnish: synkopee — absence of a sound
• French: syncope — absence of a sound
• German: Synkope — absence of a sound
• Greek: συγκοπή (sygkopí) — absence of a sound
• Hungarian: szinkópa — absence of a sound
• Hungarian: hangugratás — absence of a sound
• Japanese: 語中音消失 (gochūon shōshitsu) — absence of a sound
• Macedonian: си́нкопа (sínkopa) — absence of a sound
• Malay: lenyap bunyi — absence of a sound
• Malay: sinkope — absence of a sound
• Occitan: sincòpa — absence of a sound
• Polish: synkopa — absence of a sound
• Portuguese: síncope — absence of a sound
• Russian: синко́па (sinkópa) — absence of a sound
• Spanish: síncopa — absence of a sound
• Spanish: síncope — absence of a sound
• Swedish: synkope — absence of a sound
• Vietnamese: rụng âm — absence of a sound
• Welsh: rhyngddoriad — absence of a sound
• Arabic: إِغْمَاء (ʔiḡmāʔ) — loss of consciousness
• Bulgarian: припадък (pripadǎk) — loss of consciousness
• Bulgarian: синко́п (sinkóp) — loss of consciousness
• Catalan: síncope — loss of consciousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 昏厥 (hūnjué) — loss of consciousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 暈厥 /晕厥 (yūnjué) — loss of consciousness
• Czech: mdloba — loss of consciousness
• Czech: synkopa — loss of consciousness
• Dutch: syncope — loss of consciousness
• Finnish: pyörtyminen — loss of consciousness
• Finnish: synkopee — loss of consciousness
• French: syncope — loss of consciousness
• French: pâmoison — loss of consciousness
• Galician: trastavai — loss of consciousness
• Galician: testabau — loss of consciousness
• Galician: agavante — loss of consciousness
• Galician: dada — loss of consciousness
• Galician: desvano — loss of consciousness
• German: Synkope — loss of consciousness
• German: Ohnmacht — loss of consciousness
• Greek: λιποθυμία (lipothymía) — loss of consciousness
• Hebrew: עלפון (ilafon) — loss of consciousness
• Hungarian: ájulás — loss of consciousness
• Hungarian: eszméletvesztés — loss of consciousness
• Hungarian: tudatvesztés — loss of consciousness
• Italian: sincope — loss of consciousness
• Japanese: 気絶 (kizetsu) — loss of consciousness
• Latin: syncopē — loss of consciousness
• Latin: languor — loss of consciousness
• Occitan: sincòpi — loss of consciousness
• Occitan: esvanida — loss of consciousness
• Occitan: esvaniment — loss of consciousness
• Persian: سنکوپ (sankup) — loss of consciousness
• Persian: غش (ġaš) — loss of consciousness
• Portuguese: síncope — loss of consciousness
• Russian: о́бморок (óbmorok) — loss of consciousness
• Russian: синко́па (sinkópa) — loss of consciousness
• Scottish Gaelic: fannachadh — loss of consciousness
• Spanish: síncope — loss of consciousness
• Spanish: soponcio — loss of consciousness
• Turkish: bayılma — loss of consciousness
• Turkish: senkop — loss of consciousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 切分音 (qiēfēnyīn) — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Czech: synkopa — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Dutch: syncope — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Finnish: synkooppi — missed beat or off-beat stress
• French: syncope — missed beat or off-beat stress
• German: Synkope — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Greek: συγκοπή (sygkopí) — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Hungarian: szinkópa — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Icelandic: brottfall — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Polish: synkopa — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Russian: синко́па (sinkópa) — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Spanish: síncopa — missed beat or off-beat stress
• Swedish: synkop — missed beat or off-beat stress