syntagma
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Pronunciation
- IPA /sɪnˈtæɡmə/
Noun
syntagma noun
- A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.“The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters.”
- An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.“To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.”
- (history) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).“The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen.”
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Synonyms
syntaxemeunit of languagetextemephrasesemantemelinguistic unitlinguemewordsemonsegmentturn construction unitsubstantivesubmorphemesyllableformsentential
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