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Syncope vs Apocope - What's the difference?

syncope | apocope |

Apocope is a coordinate term of syncope.



As nouns the difference between syncope and apocope

is that syncope is a loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon while apocope is the loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

syncope

English

(wikipedia syncope)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
  • * 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise
    • the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars.
  • (prosody, phonology) The absence of a sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster.
  • A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.

    • Synonyms

    * (swoon) faint, fainting

    Hypernyms

    * (prosody) metaplasm

    Derived terms

    * presyncope

    Related terms

    * syncopal, syncopic

    External links

    * * ----

    apocope

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (prosody) The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.

    • Related terms

    * apocopate * apocopation * apocopic

    Coordinate terms

    * aphaeresis (omission of a sound to the beginning of a word) * paragoge (addition of a sound to the end of a word) * syncope (omission of a sound from the middle of a word) ----