syndetic
/sɪnˈdɛtɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or related to syndeton, the use of a conjunction.
adj
Synonym of connective, serving to connect.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Guns and butter is a syndetic phrase."
- "Asymmetry in pronominal sequencing is a recurrent feature of syndetic coordination, though with considerable variation in relation to literary genre."
- "With the syndetic juxtaposition of distinct members, the article is not often repeated."
- "Syndetic, applied to an alphabetical subject catalogue or dictionary catalogue which includes cross-references as connecting links between subjects."
- "The dictionary includes syndetic references."
- "The gap between successive members of a syndetic set may vary but is always less than some specific value: i.e., there is an integer n such that {x,x+1,x+2,⋯,x+n}∩S≠∅ for any x∈N."
Etymology
From Latin syndeticus, from Ancient Greek συνδετικός (sundetikós), from σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding”) + -κός (-kós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: syndeticus, συνδετικός
Derived Forms
Phrases
piecewise syndetic
thickly syndetic