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

σῠγκοπή• (sŭnkopḗ) f (genitiveσῠγκοπῆς);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
      • 46CE – 120CE,Plutarch,2 1011E
2. collision
   • 60BCE – 7BCE,Dionysius of Halicarnassus,The Arrangement of Words22
3. sudden loss of strength,syncope
   • Aretaeus of Cappadocia,De causis et signis acutorum morborum 2.3
   • 60BCE – 7BCE,Dionysius of Halicarnassus,The Arrangement of Words15

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

• “συγκοπή”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• συγκοπή inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Inherited fromAncient Greekσυγκοπή(sunkopḗ).

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

συγκοπή• (sygkopí) f (pluralσυγκοπές)

2. (medicine)syncope,cardiac arrest,fainting,missedheartbeats

   Έπαθεσυγκοπή.Συγκοπή καρδίας, που δυστυχώς ήταν μοιραία.

   Épathesygkopí.Sygkopí kardías, pou dystychós ítan moiraía.

   He suffered asyncope. A cardiacarrest, which unfortunately was fatal.

4. (music)syncopation
6. (grammar, phonology, phonetics)^[1] Theloss orelision of avowel between twoconsonants from the interior of a word. Similar tosyncope,contraction.

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

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

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