Agency Dictionary
Syntax
nounPronunciation: /ˈsɪn.tæks/
In Portuguese: Sintaxe
Writing & Narrative
Technology & AIWhat does “Syntax” mean?
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a natural language, or the structural rules governing code expressions in computing.
Etymology
From Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek syntaxis, "arrangement, organization", composed of syn, "together", and taxis, "order, arrangement", from tassein, "to arrange". In grammar the word names the rules by which words combine into phrases and sentences. In computing it names the structural rules that govern valid expressions in a programming language.
Usage note
In linguistics, syntax concerns the arrangement of words (how they combine), while morphology concerns their internal structure (how they are formed). In computing, a syntax error means the code does not follow the language's structural rules.
Synonyms
- sentence structure
Word family
- syntactic
- syntactical
- syntactically
Usage examples
To write is a feat of the logical brain, a mathematical equation of words, rules, and syntaxes whose solution is to deliver a message.
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