Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypotaxis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hy-potaxis
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English taxis English hypotaxis From hypo- + taxis.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hypotaxes (plural)

Phrases

para-hypotaxis

Antonyms

parataxis

Questions

What does hypotaxis mean?: Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
Where does hypotaxis come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- English taxis English hypotaxis From hypo- + taxis.

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