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Syntagm

//ˈsɪntæm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of syntagma. alt-of, alternative

    "Paulis, however, argues to have found a Greek etymology. He cites the construction "dita iteon implastruma" 'a poultice made from willow leaves', the first part of which is a Latinization of Greek διὰ ἰτεῶν 'made of willows'. This syntagm, which was supposedly borrowed into Romance as *di’iteón (vel sim.), would have subsequently been reanalyzed as *di teón."

  2. 2
    a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit wordnet

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