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See also: Schema, schéma, and schemă

English

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, form, shape). Doublet of scheme.

Pronunciation

Noun

schema (plural schemata or schemas)

  1. An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
  2. (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
  3. (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
  4. (logic) A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
  5. (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, form, shape). The scientific sense is a semantic loan from French schéma.

Pronunciation

Noun

schema n (plural schema's or schemata, diminutive schemaatje n)

  1. (general sense) visualisation, diagram
  2. (sciences) conceptual model

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Descendants

  • Indonesian: skema

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schema, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, form, shape).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskɛ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɛma
  • Hyphenation: schè‧ma

Noun

schema m (plural schemi)

  1. outline, schema, layout, diagram, plan, draft, project, arrangement
    Synonyms: diagramma, tracciato, piano, abbozzo, progetto, disposizione
  2. pattern, mould/mold, norm
    Synonyms: modello, struttura, norma

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, form, shape).

Pronunciation

Noun

schēma f (genitive schēmae); first declension
schēma n (genitive schēmatis); third declension

  1. shape, figure, form, manner, posture
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charisius to this entry?)
  2. (rhetoric) figure of speech
  3. (geometry) outline, figure

Declension

First-declension noun. Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

References

  • schēma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • SCHEMA, Schemma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • 1 schĕma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette:1,401/2
  • 2 schēma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette:1,401/2
  • schēma (scēma)” on page 1,702/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “schema”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 945/1

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schema, same as English scheme, used in Swedish since 1673.

Pronunciation

Noun

schema n

  1. a schedule (time-based plan of events)
  2. a scheme (systematic arrangement)
  3. a diagram

Usage notes

  • SAOL only lists neuter gender. The Greek plural schemata has also been used.

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