syncopated
adjective
[ ˈsɪŋkəpeɪtɪd ]
• (of music or a rhythm) characterized by displaced beats or accents so that the strong beats are weak and vice versa.
• "the melodic baselines and syncopated rhythms of funk"
syncopate
verb
• displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa.
• "soloists maintain the absolute freedom to syncopate the rhythm or break free from the beat entirely"
• shorten (a word) by dropping sounds or letters in the middle, as in symbology for symbolology, or Gloster for Gloucester.
Origin:
early 17th century: from late Latin syncopat- ‘affected with syncope’, from the verb syncopare ‘to swoon’ (see syncope).
