συγκοπή

From συγκόπτω (sunkóptō, “cut up”) +‎ -η (-ē).

σῠγκοπή • (sunkopḗ) f (genitive σῠγκοπῆς); 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
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, 2 1011E
2. collision
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, 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
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, The Arrangement of Words 15

• → French: syncope
• → Greek: συγκοπή (sygkopí)
• → Late Latin: syncope
  • ⇒ English: syncope

• “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

Inherited from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ).

• IPA^(key): /siŋ.ɡo.ˈpi/
• Hyphenation: συ‧γκο‧πή

συγκοπή • (sygkopí) f (plural συγκοπές)

2. (medicine) syncope, cardiac arrest, fainting, missed heartbeats

   Έπαθε συγκοπή. Συγκοπή καρδίας, που δυστυχώς ήταν μοιραία.

   Épathe sygkopí. Sygkopí kardías, pou dystychós ítan moiraía.

   He suffered a syncope. A cardiac arrest, which unfortunately was fatal.

4. (music) syncopation
6. (grammar, phonology, phonetics)^[1] The loss or elision of a vowel between two consonants from the interior of a word. Similar to syncope, contraction.

   e.g. περιπατώ > περπατώ (perpató) syncope of -ι-

• κοπή f (kopí, “cutting”)
• συγκόπτω (sygkópto, “shorten, abridge”)