syntagma

noun

1. A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.

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

2. An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.

   “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.”

3. A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).

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

4. (dated)An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits.
5. A treatise or compendium.

   “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.”