syntagma
/sɪnˈtæɡmə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
noun
A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
noun
A treatise or compendium.
Example Sentences
- "The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters."
- "To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots."
- "The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions for the enlargement of speculative knowledge, ethical or metaphysical."
- "A syntagma is, consequently, a unit of actual relationship, while a paradigm is a unit of potential relationship."
- "Note that [Christian] Metz is interested in narrative elements—syntagmas—that can exist within shots as well as between them, an important refinement since, as we have already indicated, the effects of many types of montage can be accomplished within a shot without actually cutting."
- "So he gives us a sort of potential sequence—an undetermined sequence—that represents a new type of syntagma, a novel form of the “logic of montage,” but that remains entirely a figure of narrativity."
Etymology
From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: syntagma
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /sɪnˈtæɡmə/