adj
Meaning 1
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
syntactic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
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rhymes with -æktɪk
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CMU ARPABET: S IH2 N T AE1 K T IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the syntactic rules of a language
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: syntactical
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: сінтаксі́чны (sintaksíčny) — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Bulgarian: синтакти́чен (sintaktíčen) — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Catalan: sintàctic — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Czech: syntaktický — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Danish: syntaktisk — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Dutch: syntactisch — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Esperanto: sintaksa — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Finnish: syntaktinen — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Finnish: lauseopillinen — of, related to or connected with syntax
- French: syntaxique — of, related to or connected with syntax
- French: syntactique — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Galician: sintáctico — of, related to or connected with syntax
- German: syntaktisch — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Greek: συντακτικός (syntaktikós) — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Hungarian: szintaktikai — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Irish: comhréireach — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Italian: sintattico — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Japanese: 統語的な (tōgoteki na) — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Kazakh: синтаксистік (sintaksistık) — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Norwegian Bokmål: syntaktisk — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Norwegian Nynorsk: syntaktisk — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Polish: syntaktyczny — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Polish: składniowy — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Portuguese: sintático — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Romanian: sintactic — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Russian: синтакси́ческий (sintaksíčeskij) — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Slovak: syntaktický — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Spanish: sintáctico — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Swedish: syntaktisk — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Tagalog: palaugnayin — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Turkish: sözdizimsel — of, related to or connected with syntax
- Ukrainian: синтакси́чний (syntaksýčnyj) — of, related to or connected with syntax
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