Meaning of syntagma | Babel Free

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1. A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
2. An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
3. A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
4. An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits.
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5. A treatise or compendium.

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Examples

“The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters.”

“To combine⟳ a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.”

“The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions for the enlargement of speculative knowledge, ethical or metaphysical.”

“A syntagma is, consequently, a unit of actual relationship, while a paradigm is a unit of potential relationship.”

“Note⟳ that [Christian] Metz is interested in narrative elements—syntagmas—that can exist⟳ within shots as well as between them, an important refinement since, as we have⟳ already indicated, the effects of many types of montage can be accomplished within a shot without actually cutting.”

“So he gives us a sort⟳ of potential sequence—an undetermined sequence—that represents a new type⟳ of syntagma, a novel form⟳ of the “logic of montage,” but that remains entirely a figure⟳ of narrativity.”

“The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen.”

“Though he informs us in the preface that his object was to trace the outlines of the great "latifundium regni philosophici" in a single syntagma, yet he really does no more than arrange⟳ a number⟳ of separate⟳ treatises or manuals, and even dictionaries, within the limits of a couple of folios.”

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