systema

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian систе́ма (sistéma), with spelling likely influenced by system. Doublet of system.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪsˈteɪmə/
• Rhymes: -eɪmə

Noun

systema (uncountable)

1. A Russian martial art, first appearing in the 1990s, involving a wide variety of fighting styles, including hand-to-hand combat, grappling, knife-fighting and firearms (with the specific elements usually dictated by the individual school).

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sisˈte.ma/

Noun

systema (plural systemas)

1. system

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German System. Doublet of system, a borrowing from Polish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sisˈtɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Syllabification: sys‧te‧ma

Noun

systema f

1. system

   Synonym: system

Further reading

• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “system”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “system”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “organised whole, body”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sysˈteː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sisˈtɛː.ma]

Noun

systēma n (genitive systēmatis); third declension

1. system
2. harmony

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	systēma	systēmata
genitive	systēmatis	systēmatum
dative	systēmatī	systēmatibus
accusative	systēma	systēmata
ablative	systēmate	systēmatibus
vocative	systēma	systēmata

Descendants

All borrowings.

• → Asturian: sistema
• → Catalan: sistema
• → Danish: system
• → English: system
• → French: système
• → Galician: sistema
• → German: System
• → Italian: sistema
• → Ladino: sistema
• → Lithuanian: sistema
• → Occitan: sistèma
• → Portuguese: sistema
• → Romanian: sistem
• → Spanish: sistema

References

• “systema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "systema", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “systema”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• systemene

Noun

systema n

1. definite plural of system

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

systema n

1. definite plural of system

Portuguese

Noun

systema m (plural systemas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of sistema
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Lincoln e Grant”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎, 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 292:

     Elle não tinha levantadas theorias, não tinha planos concebidos, não tinha presumpçosos systemas.

     He hadn't splendid theories, he hadn't conceived plans, he hadn't presumptuous systems.