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From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).
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syntagma (plural syntagmata or syntagmas)
- (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
- Hyponyms: phoneme, word, phrase, sentence
The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters.
- (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.
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma).
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syntagma
- syntagma
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