noun, feminine/sɛ̃.taks/plural: syntaxes
syntax
“La syntaxe est, à l'origine, la branche de la linguistique qui étudie la manière dont les mots se combinent pour former des phrases ou des énoncés dans une langue.” — Syntax is, in the beginning, the branch of linguistics that studies the way in which words combine to form sentences or utterances in a language.
From Middle French sintaxe, borrowed from Late Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to arrange”).