I. |si]n, sə̇], ]ŋ+ adjective
Etymology: Late Latin syncategoremat-, syncategorema + English -ic
: not capable of standing alone as a term in a proposition : having significance only in conjunction with another expression
left and up are syncategorematic terms
punctuation marks are syncategorematic signs
— opposed to categorematic
• syncategorematically “+\ adverb
II. noun
( -s )
: a syncategorematic word or sign