1771, from Modern Latin syntacticus, from Greek syntaktikos "a joining together, a joining in order," from syntassein "put in order" (see syntax).
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syntax n.
c. 1600, from French syntaxe (16c.) and directly from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek syntaxis "a putting together or in order, arrangement, a grammatical construction," from stem of syntassein "put in order," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + tassein "arrange" (see tactics).
asyntactic adj.
"ungrammatical," 1874, from a- (3) "not, without, opposite of" + syntactic. Earlier it was used in classifying languages, "opposite of syntactic" (1819).