English Dictionary

syncope

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(linguistics, phonology, prosody) The loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

日本語の意味

音韻論において、単語の内部、特に母音がひとつ以上の音節を失う（脱落する）現象

In certain dialects, syncope frequently turns disyllabic words into monosyllables, altering stress patterns across the language.

一部の方言では語中母音の脱落により二音節語が単音節になることが多く、言語全体の強勢のパターンが変わる。

意味（1）

(linguistics, phonology, prosody) The loss or elision of a sound, from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

Coordinate term: apocope

意味（2）

(pathology) A loss of consciousness when someone faints.

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, strictly speaking, to think, but with a dull lethargic consciousness of life and of the presence of those who surrounded my bed, I remained, until the crisis of the disease restored me, suddenly, to perfect sensation.

意味（3）

(music) 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 grove with the clamorous syncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.

syncopes （ plural ）