Syntagm
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"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."
More for "syntagm"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.