syntagma
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where it comes from
From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry syntagma (CC BY-SA 4.0).