syntaxis

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtaksɪs/

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

syntax — see syntax

convergence of mountain ranges

syntaxy — see syntaxy

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɪnˈtɑksɪs/

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• Hyphenation: syn‧ta‧xis

Noun

syntaxis f (uncountable)

1. syntax (structure of language)

   Synonym: zinsbouw

2. syntax (study of syntax)

   Synonym: zinsleer

Related terms

• syntactisch

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (súntaxis, “syntax”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /synˈtak.sis/, [s̠ʏn̪ˈt̪äks̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sinˈtak.sis/, [sin̪ˈt̪äksis]

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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