Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sxízma/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /scízma/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /scízma/

Noun

σχίσμα • ‎(skhísma) n ‎(genitive σχίσματος); third declension

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

Inflection

Descendants

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Noun

σχίσμα • ‎(schísma) n ‎(plural σχίσματα)

1. split, rift, division
2. (religion) schism

Declension