schēma (noun F.n) : (cf.:
* Diadema, dogma, etc.,Prisc. p. 679 P.), and (mostly post-Aug.) , (dat. and abl. plur. schemasin, Varr. ap. Charis. p. 38; but schematibus,Lampr. Heliog. 19), = σχῆμα.
* In gen., a shape, figure, form, fashion, manner, posture, attitude, etc. (so mostly ante-class.; not in Cic.).
* Fem.: quod processi huc cum servili schemā,Plaut. Am. prol. 117; cf. Caecil. ap. Prisc. p. 679 P.: Tiara ut lepidam lepide condecorat schemam,Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 2 Ritschl; cf. Prisc. l. l.; also Pompon. ap. Non. 225, 1: exemplar imperatae schemae,Suet. Tib. 43.
* In partic., as in rhet., a figure of speech, rhetorical figure (pure Lat. figura; freq. in Quint.; in Cic. written as Greek),Sen. Contr. 1, praef. § 23 sq.; 1, 1, 25; Quint. 9, 1, 1 sq.; and repeatedly in the first three chapters of the ninth book; cf. also id. 1, 5, 52 sq.; 4, 1, 49; 4, 5, 4; 5, 10, 70.
* In geometry, a figure, outline: geometrica schemata,Vitr. 6, praef. 1: sphaeroides,id. 8, 6, 3 et saep.