Main Entry:

syn·tax

Pronunciation:

\ˈsin-ˌtaks\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French sintaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek, from syntassein to arrange together, from syn- + tassein to arrange

Date:

1574

1 a: the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses) b: the part of grammar dealing with this2: a connected or orderly system : harmonious arrangement of parts or elements <the syntax of classical architecture>3: syntactics especially as dealing with the formal properties of languages or calculi