Syntagma
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit wordnet
- 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 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 An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits. dated
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- 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."
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More examples"The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters."
Etymology
From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).