syntactic

English

Etymology

From Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis, “a joining together, syntax”); see syntax.

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

• 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)
• French: syntaxique (fr)
• Galician: sintáctico m
• Irish: comhréireach
• Italian: sintattico (it)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syntaktisk

  Nynorsk: syntaktisk

• Portuguese: sintático (pt) m
• 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