syntax

The story

1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromσύνταξις
2. Late Latin · borrowed fromsyntaxis
3. English todaysyntax

Partly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange”). Doublet of syntaxis.

Words from the same roots