OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 33951

syncope

/ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
síncopa • síncope
The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
[…]; on the contrary, all syllables subject in the same way to elision, apocope, syncope, and slurring must have the same degree of stress (i.e. they must be alike unaccented) whet…
soponcio • síncope
A loss of consciousness when fainting.
Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.
Sometimes, without any apparent cause, I sank, little by little, into a condition of semi-syncope, or half swoon; and, in this condition, without pain, without ability to stir, or,…
síncopa
A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
She was a volatile creature, full of mischievous surprise: at their first music practice, after playing over some hymns on the pipe-organ, she burst into jazz, filling the quiet gr…
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