## Meanings
1. An official plan or programme to achieve something.
2. A secret or dishonest plan to do something.
3. To make secret plans, especially to do something dishonest.

## Examples
- The government launched a new scheme to help first-time buyers.
- The police uncovered a scheme to steal customers' bank details.
- They schemed to take control of the company.

## Synonyms
- hatch
- intrigue

## Derived Forms
- schematization
- schemer
- schemester
- schemie

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: scheame
- Root: schēma
- Root: σχῆμα
- Root: *seǵʰ-

## Etymology
From late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

## AI Etymology
Scheme is from late Middle English scheame, from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch. Important forms in the word's history include Middle English scheame, la-med schēma, Ancient Greek σχῆμα, Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-. In current use it includes senses such as An official plan or programme to achieve something and A secret or dishonest plan to do something.

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