Syntagma Definition

sĭn-tăgmə
syntagmas, syntagmata, syntagms
noun
syntagmata
A unit in a sequential linguistic structure.
Webster's New World
A sequence of words in a particular syntactic relationship to one another; a construction.
American Heritage

A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).

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Noun

Singular:
syntagma
Plural:
syntagmas, syntagmata

Origin of Syntagma

  • New Latin from French syntagme from Greek suntagma suntagmat- arrangement, syntactic unit from suntassein suntag- to put in order syntax

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (suntagma, “syntactical element"), from συντάσσω (suntassō, “arrange together", “to order").

    From Wiktionary

Syntagma Sentence Examples

  • The Halberstadt organ, about which so much has been written, was, according to Praetorius (Syntagma musicum, Wolffenbi ttel, 1618), built in 1361, and repaired or rebuilt 1495.

  • The chief uncertainty is as to whether he knew Justin's Syntagma, and also as to whether he had access to the Philosophumena of Hippolytus in their complete form.

  • Closely related to this is the account in the Syntagma of Hippolytus, which is preserved in Epiphanius, Haer.

  • Whether this last account, or that given by Irenaeus and in the Syntagma of Hippolytus, represents the original system of Basilides, has been the subject of a long controversy.

  • A comparison of the surviving fragments of Basilides, moreover, with the outline of his system in Irenaeus-Hippolytus (Syntagma) shows that the account given by the Fathers of the Church is also in the highest degree untrustworthy.

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Words Starting With

SSYSYN

Words Ending With

AMAGMA

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syntagma

Words Starting With S and Ending With A

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With S8 Letter Words Ending With A