syntagma

• syntagm (linguistics)^[1]

From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭntăgʹmə, IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtæɡmə/,^[1]

syntagma (plural syntagmata or syntagmas)^[1]

1. (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.

   Hyponyms: phoneme, word, phrase, sentence

   The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters.

2. (semiotics) 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.

   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection‎^[1], page 198:

     The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions for the enlargement of speculative knowledge, ethical or metaphysical.

3. (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.

4. (biology) An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits: equivalent to "tagma", or a structure comprising several tagmata in various contexts.

• syntagmatic

• syntax
• syntaxis
• tagma

• paradigm

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060615171518/http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem03.html
• http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem3.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110226190824/http://www.ticopa.com/HFCL/TUTOR/Semiotics/sem.ex.syntagm.html

IPA^(key): [ˈsɪntaɡma]

syntagma n (related adjective syntagmatický)

1. a syntagma

   Synonym: skladebná dvojice

From Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsyntɑɡmɑ/, [ˈs̠yn̪t̪ɑ̝ɡmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -yntɑɡmɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): syn‧tag‧ma

syntagma

1. syntagma