Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schene

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sch-ene
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.

Example Sentences

"Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter."
"With regard to the extent of this lake, we recur again to the testimonies above cited: Herodotus says, that the circumference of the lake Mœris was 3600 stadia, or sixty schenes, which, says the historian, form the dimensions of the maritime base of Egypt, (seventy-five leagues.)"
"We embarked, we parted; we were not long in arriving at the north of Coptos, the distance of a schene."

Etymology

From Latin schoenus, from Ancient Greek σχοῖνος (skhoînos, “a rush, a reed, a land measure”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: σχοῖνος

Inflected Forms

schenes (plural) schoene (alternative) schœne (alternative)

Questions

What does schene mean?: An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
Where does schene come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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