σχεδόν

From ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”).

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σχεδόν • (skhedón)

1. near, nearby
2. nearly, almost

• αὐτοσχεδόν (autoskhedón)

• → Greek: σχεδόν (schedón)

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

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σχεδόν (skhedón).

σχεδόν • (schedón)

1. almost