syntagma

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A comparison: a syntagma would be: Saskia is wearing shoes, socks, underwear, jeans, sweater and t-shirt, now if I shuffle the order of things: Saskia is wearing socks, sweater, shoes, underwear, t-shirt and jeans, now I'm actually still wearing the same clothes.

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  1. noun A sequence of linguistic units in a syntagmatic relationship to one another.
  2. noun A sequence of words in a particular syntactic relationship to one another; a construction.

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  • Though he informs us in the preface that his object was to trace the outlines of the great “latifundium regni philosophici” in a single syntagma, yet he really does no more than arrange a number of separate treatises or manuals, and even dictionaries, within the limits of a couple of folios. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)
  • A comparison: a syntagma would be: Saskia is wearing shoes, socks, underwear, jeans, sweater and t-shirt, now if I shuffle the order of things: Saskia is wearing socks, sweater, shoes, underwear, t-shirt and jeans, now I'm actually still wearing the same clothes. —  Masters of Media, New Media MA Amsterdam
  • The rhizome, I understand as a different syntagma where the possible horizontal connections are so vast that you will never end constructing a series. —  Masters of Media, New Media MA Amsterdam
  • SELDEN'S treatise on the Syrian and Arabian Deities enabled MILTON to comprise, in one hundred and thirty beautiful lines, the two large and learned syntagma which Selden had composed on that abstract subject. —  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
  • Though he informs us in the preface that his object was to trace the outlines of the great "latifundium regni philosophici" in a single syntagma, yet he really does no more than arrange a number of separate treatises or manuals, and even dictionaries, within the limits of a couple of folios. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)
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  1. New Latin, from French syntagme, from Greek suntagma, suntagmat-, arrangement, syntactic unit, from suntassein, suntag-, to put in order; see syntax.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek σύνταγμα, that which is put together, from συντάσ, σ1σειν, put together: see syntax. Cf. tagma.
 

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