σχεδόν

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to hold”) +‎ -δον (-don, adverbial suffix); related to ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”) and σχῆμᾰ (skhêmă, “form; shape”).^[1]

σχεδόν • (skhedón)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σχεδόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1436

“σχεδόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σχεδόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
σχεδόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G4975 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- about idem, page 2.
- almost idem, page 25.
- approximately idem, page 37.
- nearly idem, page 553.
- next idem, page 557.
- practically idem, page 631.
- virtually idem, page 954.
σχεδόν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σχεδόν (skhedón).

σχεδόν • (schedón)