σχεδόν

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold”) + a suffix -δον (-don). Related to ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skʰe.dón/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skʰeˈdon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈðon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sçeˈðon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sçeˈðon/

Adverb

σχεδόν • (skhedón)

near, nearby
nearly, almost

Derived terms

αὐτοσχεδόν (autoskhedón)

Descendants

→ Greek: σχεδόν (schedón)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σχεδόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1436

Further reading

“σχεδόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σχεδόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
σχεδόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G4975 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- about idem, page 2.
- almost idem, page 25.
- approximately idem, page 37.
- nearly idem, page 553.
- next idem, page 557.
- practically idem, page 631.
- virtually idem, page 954.

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σχεδόν (skhedón).

Adverb

σχεδόν • (schedón)

almost

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