syntactic
adjective/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
(linguistics)- connected with syntax
- syntactic rules/structures
Oxford Collocations DictionarySyntactic is used with these nouns:- construction
- structure
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Greek suntaktikos, from suntassein ‘arrange together’, from sun- ‘together’ + tassein ‘arrange’.Definitions on the go
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