Syntagma

//sɪnˈtæɡmə// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.

    "The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters."

  2. 2
    a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit wordnet
  3. 3
    An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.

    "To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots."

  4. 4
    A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).

    "The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen."

  5. 5
    An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits. dated
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  1. 6
    A treatise or compendium.

    "Though he informs us in the preface that his object was to trace the outlines of the great "latifundium regni philosophici" in a single syntagma, yet he really does no more than arrange a number of separate treatises or manuals, and even dictionaries, within the limits of a couple of folios."

Etymology

From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).

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