syntax
English
/ˈsɪn.tæks/
noun
Definitions
- A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
- (computing) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
- (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (touch, take hold of).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*teh₂g-
Gloss
touch, take hold of
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🥲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antisyntactic English
- asyntactic English
- geotaxis English
- grammaticosyntactic English
- hypotaxis English
- intact English
- lexicosyntactic English
- lexicosyntax English
- metasyntactic English
- metasyntax English
- morpho-syntax English
- morphosyntactic English
- morphosyntax English
- nanosyntactic English
- nanosyntax English
- nonsyntactic English
- para-hypotaxis English
- parataxis English
- postsyntactic English
- protosyntactic English
- protosyntax English
- syntactic English
- syntactically English
- syntactician English
- syntacticise English
- syntacticism English
- syntacticist English
- syntacticize English
- syntaxeme English
- syntaxless English
- tactful English
- tactility English
- tactless English
- tangential English
- taxidermal English
- taxis English
- taxocene English
- taxodont English
- taxonym English
- taxonymy English
- unsyntactic English
- untactful English
- contactus Latin
- contingo Latin
- intactus Latin
- integer Latin
- tactilis Latin
- tactus Latin
- tangere Latin
- tangō Latin
- tāctus Latin
- tālāriā Latin
- intact French
- taxonomie French
- συντακτικός Ancient Greek
- τάξις Ancient Greek
- ταγός Ancient Greek
- τακτικός Ancient Greek
- *tag- Proto-Indo-European
- *teh₂g- Proto-Indo-European
- *þakwōną Proto-Germanic
- *tъknǫti Proto-Slavic
- εντάξει Greek (modern)
- teimlo Welsh
- թակարդ Old Armenian
- *tongeti Proto-Celtic
- *tangō Proto-Italic
- *taťťō Proto-Hellenic
- taxis
- intact
- tactful
- taxonym
- taxocene
- taxonymy
- taxodont
- geotaxis
- tactless
- tactility
- hypotaxis
- parataxis
- syntactic
- untactful
- syntaxeme
- metasyntax
- nanosyntax
- tangential
- taxidermal
- asyntactic
- syntaxless
- unsyntactic
- protosyntax
- syntacticize
- morphosyntax
- syntacticism
- syntactician
- lexicosyntax
- nonsyntactic
- syntacticist
- syntacticise
- metasyntactic
- postsyntactic
- syntactically
- antisyntactic
- nanosyntactic
- morpho-syntax
- para-hypotaxis
- protosyntactic
- lexicosyntactic
- morphosyntactic
- grammaticosyntactic