SYNTAX

noun Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French sintaxe, from Late Latin ~is, from Greek, from syntassein to arrange together, from syn- + tassein to arrange Date: 1574 1. the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses), the part of grammar dealing with this, a connected or orderly system ; harmonious arrangement of parts or elements , syntactics especially as dealing with the formal properties of languages or calculi