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syntagma
Syntagma comes from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα ‘orderly arrangement’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to order, to establish, to rule’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tat͏̌t͏̌ōreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτάσσω‘to arrange, put in order’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEσυντάσσω‘to put in order together, to draw up, put in array’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEσύνταγμαsúntagma‘orderly arrangement’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEsyntagma
- Englishearliest quotation 1825same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*teh₂g-‘to order, to establish, to rule’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*tat͏̌t͏̌ōreconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEτάσσω‘to arrange, put in order’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEσυντάσσω‘to put in order together, to draw up, put in array’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEσύνταγμαsúntagma‘orderly arrangement’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEsyntagma
- Englishearliest quotation 1825same form
Earliest quotation: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion: “The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to order, to establish, to rule’
contact, taste, integrity, integrate, contingent, tangible, attain, tame, contiguous, tactile, taxonomy, tact, tangent, talon, contaminate, contagion, talus, thwack, 28 more
through Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō
through Ancient Greek τάσσω ‘to arrange, put in order’
Today it means
noun A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- / syntagma