schema
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skēʹmə, IPA(key): /ˈskiːmə/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: sche‧ma
- Rhymes: -iːmə
Noun edit
schema (plural schemata or schemas)
- 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).
- (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.
- (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
- (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.
- (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Synonyms edit
- (universally-applicable image or outline): schemat
- (databases): schemat
- (logic): axiom schema, schemat
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Derived terms
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Translations edit
An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception
Formal description of the structure of a database
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References edit
- “schema” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). The scientific sense is a semantic loan from French schéma.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
schema n (plural schema's or schemata, diminutive schemaatje n)
- (general sense) visualisation, diagram
- (sciences) conceptual model
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: skema
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin schema, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
schema m (plural schemi)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskʰeː.ma/, [ˈs̠kʰeːmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈske.ma/, [ˈskɛːmä]
Noun edit
schēma f (genitive schēmae); first declension
schēma n (genitive schēmatis); third declension
- shape, figure, form, manner, posture
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charisius to this entry?)
- (rhetoric) figure of speech
- (geometry) outline, figure
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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Descendants edit
Descendants
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Schema, same as English scheme, used in Swedish since 1673.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
schema n
Usage notes edit
- SAOL only lists neuter gender. The Greek plural schemata has also been used.
Declension edit
Declension of schema | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | schema | schemat | scheman | schemana |
Genitive | schemas | schemats | schemans | schemanas |
Declension of schema | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | schema | scheman | schemor | schemorna |
Genitive | schemas | schemans | schemors | schemornas |