Syntagma

Quick meaning: Syntagma is a noun meaning (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (semiotics) An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
2. (Ancient Greece) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
3. (biology, dated) An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits.
4. (publishing) A treatise or compendium.

Example Sentences

The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen.

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

To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.

A syntagma is, consequently, a unit of actual relationship, while a paradigm is a unit of potential relationship.

Word Forms

• syntagmata
• syntagmas

Synonyms for syntagma

Depending on context, synonyms include tagma.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include syntaxeme, texteme, phrase, semanteme, lingueme, word.

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