🇮🇹 Italian

schema

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masculine

lo schema

scheme

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schema
/lo ˈskɛːma/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say schema in Italian?

IPA
/lo ˈskɛːma/

How do you pronounce schema in Italian?

schema is pronounced /lo ˈskɛːma/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Lo schema è molto complicato perché contiene molti elementi diversi.

The schema is very complicated because it contains many different elements.

Questo schema logico è stato sviluppato da un professore italiano famoso.

This logical schema was developed by a famous Italian professor.

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Why is it masculine?

Schema is masculine in Italian because it derives from Latin *schēma*, which came from Greek *schêma* (meaning "form" or "figure"). Latin neuter nouns ending in *-ma* typically became feminine in Italian (following the pattern of Latin neuter plurals in *-a*), but "schema" and similar learned/scientific terms like "problema" and "sistema" retained or adopted masculine gender, likely due to their status as learned borrowings or analogical influence from other masculine nouns.

What is the Italian word for scheme?

The Italian word for scheme is lo schema — masculine.

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