Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
syntagmatic
1937, from French syntagmatique (de Saussure), from Greek syntagma "that which is put together in order," from syntassein (see syntax).
Wiktionary
syntagmatic
a. Of or pertaining to a syntagma
WordNet
syntagmatic
adj. related as members of a syntagma; "syntagmatic word associations" [ant: paradigmatic]
Usage examples of "syntagmatic".
We can probably set her up in a special Institute for Southern Baptist Hospitality Studies, from whence she can ramificate the engenderments of affections -- the calls, so to speak -- that we, you and I, have used upon occasion for the rearticulation of syntagmatic deciduation, if you take my meaning, make a list of those, and then turn her razor-eyed but very polite Southern aristocratic attention to the pause, a unit of meaning crying out for some attention in my book.