What does "syntagma" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "syntagma"?

Common synonyms include: syntagm, tagma.

//sɪnˈtæɡmə// noun

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Noun

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."
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An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits. dated

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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."

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

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

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