Meaning

noun the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

noun a systematic orderly arrangement

noun studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

originPartly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange”). Doublet of syntaxis.

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