# schema
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skēʹmə, IPA: /ˈskiːmə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: sche‧ma
* Rhymes: -iːmə

### Noun

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

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

#### Derived terms

* baby schema
* chameleon schema
* conceptual schema
* image schema
* logical schema
* physical schema
* snowflake schema
* star schema

#### Related terms

* schematic(al)(ly)
* schematism
* schematist
* schematization
* schematize
* schematologetically
* schematomancy
* scheme

#### Translations

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### References

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

### Anagrams

* McShea, mechas, sachem, samech, schame

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”). The scientific sense is a semantic loan from French schéma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsxeː.maː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sche‧ma
* Rhymes: -eːmaː

### Noun

schema n (plural schema's or schemata, diminutive schemaatje n)
* (general sense) visualisation, diagram
* (sciences) conceptual model

#### Derived terms

* kleurenschema
* schematisch
* schematiseren
* schematisme

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: skema

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈskɛ.ma/
* Rhymes: -ɛma
* Hyphenation: schè‧ma

### Noun

schema m (plural schemi)
* outline, schema, layout, diagram, plan, draft, project, arrangement
    Synonyms: diagramma, tracciato, piano, abbozzo, progetto, disposizione
* pattern, mould/mold, norm
    Synonyms: modello, struttura, norma

#### Related terms

* schematico
* schematismo
* schematizzare

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈskʰeː.ma/, [ˈs̠kʰeːmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈske.ma/, [ˈskɛːmä]

### Noun

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

| First-declension noun. singular plural nominative schēma schēmae genitive schēmae schēmārum dative schēmae schēmīs accusative schēmam schēmās ablative schēmā schēmīs vocative schēma schēmae | Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). singular plural nominative schēma schēmata genitive schēmatis schēmatum dative schēmatī schēmatibus accusative schēma schēmata ablative schēmate schēmatibus vocative schēma schēmata |

#### Related terms

* schēma logū
* schēmatismos
* schēmatometria

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: esquema
* → French: schéma m
** → Romanian: schemă f
** → Turkish: şema
* → Italian: schema m
* → Portuguese: esquema
* → Spanish: esquema
* → Dutch: schema
** → Indonesian: skema
* → English: schema
* → English: scheme
** → Irish: scéim
** → Malay: skim
* → German: Schema
** → Swedish: schema
* → Old Irish: scíam
** Irish: scéimh
** Scottish Gaelic: sgiamh

### References

* “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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɧeːma/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

schema n
* a schedule (time-based plan of events)
* a scheme (systematic arrangement)
* a diagram

#### Usage notes

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

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | schema | schemas |
| singular | definite | schemat | schemats |
| plural | indefinite | scheman | schemans |
| plural | definite | schemana | schemanas |
| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | schema | schemas |
| singular | definite | scheman | schemans |
| plural | indefinite | schemor | schemors |
| plural | definite | schemorna | schemornas |

#### Related terms

* kopplingsschema
* skolschema

### References

* schema in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* schema in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* schema in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)