Meanings
plural hypotaxes
- countableuncountablegrammarSyntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
She said that an example of hypotaxis is: "Although he was sleepy, he stayed awake for the New Year."
1 more example
He finished reading about parataxis and hypotaxis (they either had something to do with writing or else with futuristic transportation, but he couldn't decide which) [...].
2007, Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, page 25Antonyms: parataxis
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSyntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*upó
- Ancient Greekῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
- Ancient Greekὑπο- (hupo-)
- Englishhypo-
- Englishtaxis
- Englishhypotaxis
Translations
Catalan hipotaxi
- hipotaxisyntactic subordination
Dutch onderschikking
- onderschikkingsyntactic subordination
Finnish alistussuhde
- alistussuhdesyntactic subordination
French hypotaxe
- hypotaxesyntactic subordination
German Unterordnung, Hypotaxis
- Unterordnungsyntactic subordination
- Hypotaxissyntactic subordination
- Hypotaxesyntactic subordination
Norwegian hypotakse, underordning
- hypotaksesyntactic subordination
- underordningsyntactic subordination
Portuguese hipotaxe, subordinação
- hipotaxesyntactic subordination
- subordinaçãosyntactic subordination
Romanian hipotaxă
- hipotaxăsyntactic subordination
Spanish hipotaxis
- hipotaxissyntactic subordination
Swedish hypotax
- hypotaxsyntactic subordination
Cite this entry
hypotaxis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypotaxis
“hypotaxis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypotaxis. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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