syntaxis

English

Etymology

From the Late Latin syntaxis, from the Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis). Doublet of syntax.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtaksɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtæksɪs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

syntaxis (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)

1. (archaic or non-native speakers' English, grammar) Syntax.
2. (geology) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
3. (crystallography) Syntaxy.

Translations

syntax — see syntax

convergence of mountain ranges

syntaxy — see syntaxy

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (sŭ́ntăxĭs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪnˈtɑksɪs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: syn‧ta‧xis

Noun

syntaxis f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. syntax (structure of language)

   Synonym: zinsbouw

2. syntax (study of syntax)

   Synonym: zinsleer

Related terms

• syntactisch

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.?

Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.?

Proto-Hellenic *ksún

Ancient Greek σύν (sún)

Ancient Greek συν- (sun-)

Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-der.

Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō

Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō)

Ancient Greek συντάσσω (suntássō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)

Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (sŭ́ntăxĭs)bor.

Latin syntaxis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (sŭ́ntăxĭs, “syntax”), from συντάσσω (suntássō) + -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [synˈtak.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sinˈtak.sis]

Noun

syntaxis f (genitive syntaxis or syntaxeōs or syntaxios); third declension

1. syntaxis, syntax
   • 2001, Terence Tunberg, “De Marco Antonio Mureto Oratore et Gallo et Romano”, in Gilbert Tournoy, editor, Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, volume L, Leuven University Press, →ISBN, 306, footnote 7:

     Quae cum de sermonis proprietatibus praeceperit Valla, vestigia tamen syntaxeos Mediolatinae in eius scriptis cernere possumus non pauca.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	syntaxis	syntaxēs syntaxeis
genitive	syntaxis syntaxeōs syntaxios	syntaxium
dative	syntaxī	syntaxibus
accusative	syntaxim syntaxin syntaxem1	syntaxēs syntaxīs
ablative	syntaxī syntaxe1	syntaxibus
vocative	syntaxis syntaxi	syntaxēs syntaxeis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

References

• “syntaxis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “syntaxis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “syntaxis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “syntaxis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin