schisma

See also: Schisma

English

Alternative forms

• skhisma

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)

1. (music) A very small interval equal to half a comma.

Derived terms

• schismatic temperament

Anagrams

• chiasms

Czech

Noun

schisma n

1. 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) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰis.ma/, [ˈs̠kʰɪs̠mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskis.ma/, [ˈskizmä]

Noun

schisma n (genitive schismatis); third declension

1. 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.

Declension

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

Case	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
  • French: schisme
  • → Middle English: scisme, cisme, cissime, scysme, sisme, sysme
    • English: schism
    • Scots: schism
• 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.