The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσχέδιος“made suddenly, off-hand”
- Latin · derived fromschedium
- Italian · derived fromschizzo
- German · borrowed fromSkizze
- Dutch · borrowed fromschets
- English todaysketch
From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Compare scheme.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekσχέδιος all →
schediaphilia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.