The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσχίσμα“cleft, division”
- Latin · borrowed fromschisma
- English todayschisma
Unadapted borrowing from Latin schisma, from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhísma, “cleft, division”), whence the orthographic borrowing skhisma. Doublet of schism.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσχίσμα all →
schism
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.