syntagma

syntagma

English

Alternative forms

• syntagm (linguistics)[1]

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

   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, 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. (historical) 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.

Derived terms

• syntagmatic

Related terms

• syntax
• syntaxis

Translations

syntactic arrangement

Esperanto: sintagmo Finnish: syntagma (fi) French: syntagme (fr) m Galician: sintagma m German: Syntagma (de) n Polish: syntagma (pl) f Portuguese: sintagma (pt) m Romanian: sintagmă (ro) f Russian: синта́гма (ru) f (sintágma) Serbo-Croatian: синтагма f (sintagma), sintagma (sh) f Swedish: syntagm

semiotic arrangement

Esperanto: sintagmo Finnish: syntagma (fi) French: syntagme (fr) m Galician: sintagma m German: Syntagma (de) n Polish: syntagma (pl) f Portuguese: sintagma (pt) m Romanian: sintagmă (ro) f Russian: синта́гма (ru) f (sintágma) Serbo-Croatian: синтагма f (sintagma), sintagma (sh) f Swedish: syntagm

Macedonian phalanx

Finnish: syntagma (fi) Greek: σύνταγμα (el) n (sýntagma)

See also

• paradigm

References

1. “‖syntagma” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

• 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

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Finnish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

syntagma

1. syntagma

Declension

Inflection of syntagma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		syntagma	syntagmat
genitive		syntagman	syntagmojen
partitive		syntagmaa	syntagmoja
illative		syntagmaan	syntagmoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		syntagma	syntagmat
accusative	nom.	syntagma	syntagmat
	gen.	syntagman
genitive		syntagman	syntagmojen syntagmainrare
partitive		syntagmaa	syntagmoja
inessive		syntagmassa	syntagmoissa
elative		syntagmasta	syntagmoista
illative		syntagmaan	syntagmoihin
adessive		syntagmalla	syntagmoilla
ablative		syntagmalta	syntagmoilta
allative		syntagmalle	syntagmoille
essive		syntagmana	syntagmoina
translative		syntagmaksi	syntagmoiksi
instructive		—	syntagmoin
abessive		syntagmatta	syntagmoitta
comitative		—	syntagmoineen

Possessive forms of syntagma (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	syntagmani	syntagmamme
2nd person	syntagmasi	syntagmanne
3rd person	syntagmansa