schisma
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin schisma, from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”), whence the orthographic borrowing skhisma. Doublet of schism.
Noun
schisma (plural schismas)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Czech
Noun
schisma n
- Alternative spelling of schizma
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma, “division”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “I split”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskʰis.ma/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskis.ma/,
Noun
schisma n (genitive schismatis); third declension
- schism (a split or separation within a group or organization)
- Hermann Venema, Institutiones historiae Ecclesiae veteris et novi testamenti; chapter XI, page 581
- Renovāta est hōc sēculō contrōversia inter Graecōs et Latīnōs dē Prōcessiōne Spīritūs S. ex Patre Fīliōque, ut ex historiā schismatis posteā patēbit.
- Hermann Venema, Institutiones historiae Ecclesiae veteris et novi testamenti; chapter XI, page 581
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | schisma | schismata |
| genitive | schismatis | schismatum |
| dative | schismatī | schismatibus |
| accusative | schisma | schismata |
| ablative | schismate | schismatibus |
| vocative | schisma | schismata |
Descendants
- Catalan: cisma
- Old French: cisme
- Portuguese: cisma
- Spanish: cisma
- → Catalan: schisma (learned)
- → Czech: schizma, schisma (learned)
- → English: schisma (learned)
- → Italian: schisma (learned)
- → Romanian: schismă (learned)
- → Polish: schizma (learned)
- → Spanish: schisma (learned)
References
- “schisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- schisma 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)
- schisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.