释义 |
syn·tax \ˈsin.ˌtaks\ noun (-es) Etymology: French or Late Latin; French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek, from the stem of syntassein to put in order, arrange + -sis — more at syntactic 1. : connected system or order : orderly arrangement : harmonious adjustment of parts or elements 2. a. : sentence structure : the arrangement of word forms to show their mutual relations in the sentence b. : the part of grammar that treats of the expression of predicative, qualifying, and other word relations according to established usage in the language under study — compare morphology 3. a. : syntactics b. : the area of syntactics dealing specifically with the formal properties of languages or calculi — called also logical syntax |