syncopation

English

Etymology

From syncopate +‎ -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪŋ.kəˈpeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)

1. (linguistics, phonology) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
2. (music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.

Derived terms

• syncopational
• syncopationally

Related terms

• syncope

Translations

rhythm quality

• Chinese: 切分 (qiēfēn), 切分音 (qiēfēnyīn)
• Finnish: synkopaatio
• French: syncopation (fr) f
• Greek: συγκοπή (el) f (sygkopí)
• Hungarian: szinkópa (hu)
• Japanese: シンコペーション (shinkopēshon)
• Māori: taki aruaru
• Portuguese: síncope (pt) f, sincopação f
• Swedish: synkopering (sv) c, synkop (sv) c

phonology: loss of sounds

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 字中音省略 (zìzhōngyīnshěnglüè)

• Finnish: synkopee (fi)
• Greek: συγκοπή (el) f (sygkopí)
• Hungarian: szinkópa (hu)
• Irish: meánchoimriú m
• Latin: syncopātiō f
• Swedish: synkope (sv) c