schema

From Latin schēma, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skēʹmə, IPA^(key): /ˈskiːmə/

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• Hyphenation: sche‧ma

schema (plural schemata or schemas)

1. 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).
2. (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.
3. (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
4. (logic) A formula in the language 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.
5. (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.

• (universally-applicable image or outline): schemat
• (databases): schemat
• (logic): axiom schema, schemat

• “schema” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

• mechas, sachem, samech, schame

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schema n (plural schema's or schemata, diminutive schemaatje n)

1. (general sense) visualisation, diagram
2. (sciences) conceptual model

From Latin schema, from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: schè‧ma

schema m (plural schemi)

1. outline, schema, layout, diagram, plan, draft, project, arrangement
2. pattern, mould, norm

• (1) diagramma, tracciato, piano, abbozzo, progetto, disposizione
• (2) modello, struttura, norma

• schematico
• schematismo
• schematizzare

From Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʰeː.ma/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈske.ma/, [ˈskeː.ma]

schēma f (genitive schēmae); first declension
schēma n (genitive schēmatis); third declension

1. shape, figure, form, manner, posture
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2. (rhetoric) figure of speech
3. (geometry) outline, figure

• schēmatismos
• schēmatometria

• 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, 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: Brill, page 945/1

From German Schema, same as English scheme, used in Swedish since 1673.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɧeːma/

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schema n

1. a schedule (time-based plan of events)
2. a scheme (systematic arrangement)
3. a diagram

• SAOL only lists neuter gender. The Greek plural schemata has also been used.

• kopplingsschema
• skolschema

• schema in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• schema in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.