Usage in the formsyncope, with the phonological meaning "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds or letters" attested from the 1520s.Syncopis andsincopin were "re-Latinized" to the formsyncope in English in the sixteenth century. The musical usage first occurs after the 1660s, following the musical usage ofsyncopation andsyncopate.
[…]; 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) whether preceded by short or by long root-syllables.
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.
1896, George M. Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle,Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine[2]:
Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers producedsyncope.
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 clamoroussyncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.
(linguistics,phonology,prosody) the loss or elision of a sound from the interior of a word (for example the change of Dutchveder inveer "feather");syncope
(pathology) a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon;syncope
(music) a missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation;syncope
1925 January 1, “Teria se suicidado por haver o filho casado com uma geisha [Committed suicide because his son had married a geisha]”, inCorreio da Manhã[4], volume XXIV, number9296,Rio de Janeiro, page 1:
A causa mortis official tem sido apresentada como umasyncope cardiaca, mas correm boatos de que o marquez se suicidou desgostoso com o casamento de seu filho com uma geisha.
The official cause of death has been presented as cardiacsyncope, but there are rumors that the marquis committed suicide distasteful of his son’s marriage with a geisha.
