[ 'sɪntaks ]
■ noun
1》 the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences.
↘a set of rules for or an analysis of this.
2》 the structure of statements in a computer language.
Derivatives
syntactic adjective
syntactical adjective
syntactically adverb
Origin
C16: from Fr. ~e , or via late L. from Gk suntaxis , from sun- 'together' + tassein 'arrange'.