syntagma
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭntăgʹmə, IPA(key): /sɪnˈtæɡmə/,[1]
Noun
syntagma (plural syntagmata or syntagmas)[1]
- (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
- (semiotics) 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.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 198:
- The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions for the enlargement of speculative knowledge, ethical or metaphysical.
- (history) 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.
- (biology) An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits: equivalent to "tagma", or a structure comprising several tagmata in various contexts.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
syntactic arrangement
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semiotic arrangement
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See also
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060615171518/http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem03.html
- http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem3.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110226190824/http://www.ticopa.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem.ex.syntagm.html
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
syntagma n (related adjective syntagmatický)
- a syntagma
- Synonym: skladebná dvojice
Declension
Declension of syntagma (ma-stem neuter reducible)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | syntagma | syntagmata |
| genitive | syntagmatu | syntagmat |
| dative | syntagmatu | syntagmatům |
| accusative | syntagma | syntagmata |
| vocative | syntagma | syntagmata |
| locative | syntagmatu | syntagmatech |
| instrumental | syntagmatem | syntagmaty |
Finnish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma).
Pronunciation
Noun
syntagma
Declension
| Inflection of syntagma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | syntagma | syntagmat | |
| genitive | syntagman | syntagmojen | |
| partitive | syntagmaa | syntagmoja | |
| illative | syntagmaan | syntagmoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | syntagma | syntagmat | |
| accusative | nom. | syntagma | syntagmat |
| gen. | syntagman | ||
| genitive | syntagman | syntagmojen syntagmain rare | |
| partitive | syntagmaa | syntagmoja | |
| inessive | syntagmassa | syntagmoissa | |
| elative | syntagmasta | syntagmoista | |
| illative | syntagmaan | syntagmoihin | |
| adessive | syntagmalla | syntagmoilla | |
| ablative | syntagmalta | syntagmoilta | |
| allative | syntagmalle | syntagmoille | |
| essive | syntagmana | syntagmoina | |
| translative | syntagmaksi | syntagmoiksi | |
| abessive | syntagmatta | syntagmoitta | |
| instructive | — | syntagmoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||