syntagma

Meanings

1. A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
2. An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
3. A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
4. An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits.
5. A treatise or compendium.

Etymology

From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).