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English

Etymology

From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??ti?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

motif (plural motifs)

1. A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.

   See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?

2. (music) A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
3. A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.
4. (dressmaking) A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.
5. (crystallography) The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.
6. (chess) A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.
7. (biochemistry) In a nucleotide or amino-acid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.

Related terms

• motive
• phosphomotif
• leitmotif
• motify

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin m?tivus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.tif/

Noun

motif m (plural motifs)

1. motive
2. motif
3. pattern, design

Derived terms

• au motif que

Descendants

Further reading

• “motif” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch motief, from Middle Dutch motijf, from Old French motif (Modern French motif), from Late Latin m?tivus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mot?f]
• Hyphenation: mo?tif

Noun

motif (first-person possessive motifku, second-person possessive motifmu, third-person possessive motifnya)

1. motif:
   1. a recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.

      Synonyms: corak, pola

   2. (music, literature) a short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
2. motive:
   1. (law) something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “motif” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

English

Etymology

From Latin sch?ma, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhêma, “form, shape”). Doublet of scheme.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sk??m?, IPA^(key): /?ski?m?/
• Hyphenation: sche?ma

Noun

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 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.
5. (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• mechas, sachem, samech, schame

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: skema

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?.ma/
• Rhymes: -?ma
• Hyphenation: schè?ma

Noun

schema m (plural schemi)

1. outline, schema, layout, diagram, plan, draft, project, arrangement

   Synonyms: diagramma, tracciato, piano, abbozzo, progetto, disposizione

2. pattern, mould, norm

   Synonyms: modello, struttura, norma

Related terms

• schematico
• schematismo
• schematizzare

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sk?e?.ma/, [?s?k?e?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ske.ma/, [?sk??m?]

Noun

sch?ma f (genitive sch?mae); first declension
sch?ma n (genitive sch?matis); third declension

1. shape, figure, form, manner, posture
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Charisius to this entry?)
2. (rhetoric) figure of speech
3. (geometry) outline, figure

Declension

Related terms

• sch?matismos
• sch?matometria

Descendants

References

• sch?ma 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 sch?ma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,401/2”
• 2 sch?ma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “1,401/2”
• “sch?ma (sc?ma)” 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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?ma/

Noun

schema n

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

Usage notes

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

Declension

Related terms

• kopplingsschema
• skolschema

References

• schema in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• schema in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)