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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sek-?

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

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Proto-Indo-European *skey-

Proto-Indo-European *skeyd-der.

Ancient Greek σχῐ́ζω (skhĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma)bor.

Latin schisma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma, “division”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskʰɪs.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskiz.ma]

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).

	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
• 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, 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.