sinkope
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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ). Doublet of sinkop.
Pronunciation
Noun
sinkopé (first-person possessive sinkopeku, second-person possessive sinkopemu, third-person possessive sinkopenya)
- (linguistics, phonology, prosody) syncope: the loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
Further reading
- “sinkope” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.