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

• Belarusian: сінтаксі́чны (sintaksíčny)
• Bulgarian: синтакти́чен (sintaktíčen)
• 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)
• Greek: συντακτικός (el) (syntaktikós)
• Hungarian: szintaktikai (hu)
• Irish: comhréireach

• Italian: sintattico (it)
• Kazakh: синтаксистік (sïntaksïstik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syntaktisk

  Nynorsk: syntaktisk

• Polish: syntaktyczny (pl), składniowy (pl)
• Portuguese: sintático (pt)
• Romanian: sintactic (ro)
• Russian: синтакси́ческий (ru) (sintaksíčeskij)
• Slovak: syntaktický
• Spanish: sintáctico (es)
• Swedish: syntaktisk (sv)
• Tagalog: palaugnayin
• Turkish: sözdizimsel
• Ukrainian: синтакси́чний (syntaksýčnyj)

Further reading

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