anataxis etymology

English word anataxis comes from English taxis, English ana-

Detailed word origin of anataxis

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
taxis English (eng) (biology) The directional movement of an organism in response to a stimulus.. (historical) A brigade in an Ancient Greek army.. (medicine) The manipulation of a body part into its normal position after injury.. (rhetoric) The arrangement of the parts of a topic.. Arrangement or ordering generally, as in architecture or grammar.
ana- English (eng) Again. Apiece (Can we add an example for this sense?). Backward. Excessive. On. Up.
anataxis English (eng) (linguistics) difference in ordering between consecutive syntactic layers.

Words with the same origin as anataxis

Descendants of taxis
odortactic pseudotaxodont thermotactic
Descendants of ana-
anabiosis anabranch anacampylotropous anacolpate anadrome anafront anafunctor anagen anagenesis analept analeptic anamorphism ananym anaplasic anaporate anaprotaspis anaseismic anastatic anastatically anatocism anatoxin anatreme anatropy