σχίσμα

From σχίζω (skhízō, “I split”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

σχῐ́σμᾰ • (skhĭ́smă) n (genitive σχῐ́σμᾰτος); third declension

1. That which is divided: division, rent, split
2. A division of people based on differing opinions: schism, faction

• → Coptic: ⲥⲭⲓⲥⲙⲁ (skhisma)
• → Greek: σχίσμα (schísma)
• → Latin: schisma
  • 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)
• ⇒ Translingual: Schismatomma

• “σχίσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σχίσμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4978 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma) (Hellenisitic sense "division of ecclesiastical unity"), from verb σχίζω (skhízō), stem σχισ- + -μα (-ma).
For sense "division of a group of political party" a semantic loan from French schisme.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsçi.zma/
• Hyphenation: σχί‧σμα

σχίσμα • (schísma) n (plural σχίσματα)

1. (Christianity) schism
2. split, rift, division (of a group or political party)

and see: σχίζω (schízo) / σκίζω (skízo, “tear”)

• σχίσμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el