syntaxis

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

syntaxis (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)

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

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌsɪnˈtɑksɪs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: syn‧ta‧xis

Noun

syntaxis f (uncountable)

  1. syntax (structure of language)
    Synonym: zinsbouw
  2. syntax (study of syntax)
    Synonym: zinsleer

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (súntaxis, syntax).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. syntaxis, syntax
    • 2001, Terentius 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.
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Declension

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

Case 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