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)

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

Derived terms

schismatic temperament

Anagrams

chiasms

Czech

Noun

schisma n

Alternative spelling of schizma

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰis.ma/, [ˈs̠kʰɪs̠mä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskis.ma/, [ˈskizmä]

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.

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