syntaxis
English
Etymology
From the Late Latin syntaxis, from the Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis). Doublet of syntax.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sɪnˈtaksɪs/
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
syntax — see syntax
convergence of mountain ranges
syntaxy — see syntaxy
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (sŭ́ntăxĭs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsɪnˈtɑksɪs/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: syn‧ta‧xis
Noun
syntaxis f (uncountable)
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek σῠ́ντᾰξῐς (sŭ́ntăxĭs, “syntax”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [synˈtak.sɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sin̪ˈt̪ak.sis]
Noun
syntaxis f (genitive syntaxis or syntaxeōs or syntaxios); third declension
- syntaxis, syntax
- 2001, Terence 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).
| 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