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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)
- (archaic, grammar) Syntax.
- (geology) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
- (crystallography) Syntaxy.
Translations
convergence of mountain ranges
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (súntaxis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsɪnˈtɑksɪs/
- Hyphenation: syn‧ta‧xis
Noun
syntaxis f (uncountable)
- syntax (structure of language)
- Synonym: zinsbouw
- 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
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
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