HYPOTAXIS


Meaning of HYPOTAXIS in English

n.

Pronunciation: - ' tak-s ə s

Function: noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, subjection, from hypotassein to arrange under, from hypo- + tassein to arrange

Date: 1883

: syntactic subordination (as by a conjunction)

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