Etymology

metasyntactic

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Today it means: Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax. Full definition →

English syntactic ← Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)
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  1. Ancient Greekμετᾰ́ (metắ)
  2. Ancient Greekμετᾰ- (metă-)
  3. Englishmeta-
  4. Englishsyntactic
  5. English todaymetasyntactic

From meta- + syntactic.

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