Etymology
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syntax (n.)

c. 1600, from French syntaxe (16c.) and directly from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek syntaxis "a putting together or in order, arrangement, a grammatical construction," from stem of syntassein "put in order," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + tassein "arrange" (see tactics).

Entries linking to syntax

syn- 
word-forming element meaning "together with, jointly; alike; at the same time," also sometimes completive or intensive, from Greek syn (prep.) "with, together with, along with, in the company of," from PIE *ksun- "with" (source also of Russian so- "with, together," from Old Russian su(n)-). Assimilated to -l-, reduced to sy- before -s- and -z-, and altered to sym- before -b-, -m- and -p-. Since 1970s also with a sense of "synthetic."
tactics (n.)
1620s, "science of arranging military forces for combat," from Modern Latin tactica (17c.), from Greek taktike techne "art of arrangement," noun use of fem. of taktikos "of or pertaining to arrangement," especially "tactics in war," adjective to taxis "arrangement, an arranging, the order or disposition of an army, battle array; order, regularity," verbal noun of tassein "arrange," from PIE root *tag- "to touch, handle."
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Definitions of syntax

syntax (n.)
the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences;
Synonyms: sentence structure / phrase structure
syntax (n.)
a systematic orderly arrangement;
syntax (n.)
studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences;
From wordnet.princeton.edu

Dictionary entries near syntax

synoptic

synovial

syntactic

syntactical

syntagmatic

syntax

synthesis

synthesise

synthesize

synthesizer

synthetic

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