syntax

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Etymology

Ancient Greek σύνταξις (suntaksis), from σύν (sun, “together”) + τάξις (taksis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tassō, “I arrange”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪn.tæks/, SAMPA: /"sIn.t{ks/

Noun

syntax (plural syntaxes)

1. A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
2. (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.

Usage notes

The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.)

Derived terms

• syntactic
• syntactician

Related terms

• syntax error
• syntax highlighting

Translations

set of rules that govern how words are combined

Arabic: بناء جملة (ar) (binaa' júmla) m. Armenian: շարահյուսություն (šarahyusut'yun) Catalan: sintaxi (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 句法 (cmn) (jùfǎ), 造句 (cmn) (zàojù) Croatian: sklàdnja (hr) f., sìntaksa (hr) f. Esperanto: sintakso (eo) Finnish: lauseoppi (fi), syntaksi (fi) French: syntaxe (fr) f. German: Syntax (de) f. Greek: συντακτικό (el) (syntaktikó) n., σύνταξη (el) (sýntaxi) f.

Japanese: 統語法 (tōgohō) Occitan: sintaxi (oc) f. Persian: نحو (fa) Polish: składnia (pl) f., syntaksa (pl) f. Portuguese: sintaxe (pt) f. Russian: синтаксис (ru) (síntaksis) m. Scots: seentax Slovene: skladnja (sl) Spanish: sintaxis (es) f. Swedish: syntax (sv) c., grammatik (sv) c. Vietnamese: cú pháp (vi)

formal rules of a computer language

Croatian: sklàdnja (hr) f., sìntaksa (hr) f. Finnish: syntaksi (fi) French: syntaxe (fr) f. Greek: συντακτικό (el) (syntaktikó) n. Icelandic: málskipan (is) f. Japanese: 文法 (bunpō), 構文 (kōbun), シンタックス (sintakkusu)

Persian: نحو (fa) Polish: składnia (pl) f., syntaksa (pl) f. Portuguese: sintaxe f. Russian: синтаксис (ru) (síntaksis) m. Spanish: sintaxis (es) f. Swedish: syntax (sv) c., grammatik (sv) c.

study of the structure of phrases and sentences

Chinese: Mandarin: 句法 (zh) (jùfǎ), 语法学 (zh) (yǔfǎxué) Croatian: sklàdnja (hr) f., sìntaksa (hr) f. Czech: syntax (cs) f., syntaxe (cs) f. Finnish: lauseoppi (fi), syntaksi (fi) French: syntaxe (fr) f. Greek: συντακτικό (el) (syntaktikó) n. Icelandic: setningafræði (is) f., (dated) orðskipunarfræði (is) f.

Japanese: 統語論 (tōgoron) Persian: نحو (fa) Polish: składnia (pl) f., syntaksa (pl) f. Portuguese: sintaxe f. Russian: синтаксис (ru) (síntaksis) m. Slovene: skladnja (sl) Spanish: sintaxis (es) f. Swedish: syntax (sv) c., grammatik (sv) c.

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Mandarin: 造句 SYN：morphology Dutch: syntaxis f. Esperanto: sintakso German: Syntax f. Interlingua: syntaxe Italian: sintassi f. Latin: syntaxis f. Persian: جمله‌شناسی (jomle-shenasi), نحو (nahv)

See also

• grammar

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Czech

Noun

syntax f.

1. syntax (linguistics)

Synonyms

• syntaxe f.

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Swedish

Noun

syntax c.

1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension

Declension of syntax

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	syntax	syntaxen	syntaxer	syntaxerna
genitive	syntax	syntaxens	syntaxers	syntaxernas

References

• syntax in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)