syntactic

syntactic

English

Etymology

Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós), or from syntax +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtæktɪk/
• Rhymes: -æktɪk

Adjective

syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)

1. Of, related to or connected with syntax.

   The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.

   • 2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674:

     the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.

2. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

Synonyms

• (of, related to or connected with syntax): syntactical

Related terms

• syntax

Translations

of, related to or connected with syntax

Catalan: sintàctic Czech: syntaktický m Dutch: syntactisch (nl) Esperanto: sintaksa Finnish: syntaktinen (fi), lauseopillinen French: syntaxique (fr), syntactique (fr) Galician: sintáctico m German: syntaktisch (de) Irish: comhréireach Italian: sintattico (it)

Norwegian: Bokmål: syntaktisk Nynorsk: syntaktisk Portuguese: sintático (pt) Romanian: sintactic (ro) Russian: синтаксический (ru) (sintaksičeskij) Spanish: sintáctico (es) Tagalog: palaugnayin Turkish: sözdizimsel

Further reading

• syntactic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• syntactic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911