systema

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian систе́ма (sistéma). Doublet of system.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪsˈteɪmə/

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sysˈteː.ma/, [s̠ʏs̠ˈt̪eːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sisˈte.ma/, [sisˈt̪ɛːmä]

Noun

systēma n (genitive systēmatis); third declension

1. system
2. harmony

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	systēma	systēmata
Genitive	systēmatis	systēmatum
Dative	systēmatī	systēmatibus
Accusative	systēma	systēmata
Ablative	systēmate	systēmatibus
Vocative	systēma	systēmata

Descendants

• 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’s 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