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noun
A square formation of 256 soldiers arranged into sixteen files, sixteen ranks deep, led by a syntagmatarch; a syntagma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Greek, rare
Topics: government, history, human-sciences, military, politics, sciences, war
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
First attested in 1670–1 and then once per century since; from the Latin syntagmatarchia, from the Ancient Greek συνταγματαρχία (suntagmatarkhía), from σύνταγμα (súntagma), whence the English syntagma.
