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Syntaxis
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Syn-tax′is
,Noun.
Syntax.
[R.]
B. Jonson.
Definition 2024
syntaxis
syntaxis
English
Noun
syntaxis (uncountable)
- (archaic, grammar) Syntax.
- (geology) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
- (crystallography) Syntaxy.
Translations
syntax — see syntax
convergence of mountain ranges
syntaxy — see syntaxy
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (súntaxis, “syntax”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /synˈtak.sis/, [sʏnˈtak.sɪs]
Noun
syntaxis f (genitive syntaxeos or syntaxis); third declension
- syntaxis, syntax
- 2001, Terentius Tunberg, “De Marco Antonio Mureto Oratore et Gallo et Romano” in Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, volume L, ed. Gilbert Tournoy, Leuven University Press, ISBN 9058671720, 306, footnote 7:
- Quae cum de sermonis proprietatibus praeceperit Valla, vestigia tamen syntaxeos Mediolatinae in eius scriptis cernere possumus non pauca.
- 2001, Terentius Tunberg, “De Marco Antonio Mureto Oratore et Gallo et Romano” in Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, volume L, ed. Gilbert Tournoy, Leuven University Press, ISBN 9058671720, 306, footnote 7:
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- syntaxis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “syntaxis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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