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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromπαράταξις“placement side by side”
- English todayparataxis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παράταξις (parátaxis, “placement side by side”), from παρα- (para-) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”); equivalent to para- + taxis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.