dogma

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English[edit]

WOTD – 13 February 2009
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Etymology[edit]

From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem good, think”). Treated in the 17c. -18c. as Greek, with plural dogmata.

Compare decent.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒɡ.mə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɡ.mə/, /ˈdɑɡ.mə/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun[edit]

dogma (countable and uncountable, plural dogmas or dogmata)

  1. An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
  2. A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
    In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ex cathedra to make them part of the official faith.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, →OCLC, page 192:
      According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה‎ (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”).

Noun[edit]

dogma m (plural dogmes)

  1. dogma

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Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dogma n

  1. dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion)

Declension[edit]

Declension of dogma (ma-stem neuter reducible)
singular plural
nominative dogma dogmata
genitive dogmatu dogmat
dative dogmatu dogmatům
accusative dogma dogmata
vocative dogma dogmata
locative dogmatu dogmatech
instrumental dogmatem dogmaty

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔx.maː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun[edit]

dogma n (plural dogmata or dogma's or dogmen, diminutive dogmaatje n)

  1. dogma (colloquially with connotations of strictness and inflexibility)

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Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoɡma/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Adjective[edit]

dogma (accusative singular dogman, plural dogmaj, accusative plural dogmajn)

  1. dogmatic, dogmatical

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Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”).

Noun[edit]

dogma m (plural dogmas)

  1. dogma

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Hungarian[edit]

 dogma on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem good, think”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈdoɡmɒ]
  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma
  • Rhymes: -mɒ

Noun[edit]

dogma (plural dogmák)

  1. dogma (an authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it)
  2. dogma (a doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative dogma dogmák
accusative dogmát dogmákat
dative dogmának dogmáknak
instrumental dogmával dogmákkal
causal-final dogmáért dogmákért
translative dogmává dogmákká
terminative dogmáig dogmákig
essive-formal dogmaként dogmákként
essive-modal — —
inessive dogmában dogmákban
superessive dogmán dogmákon
adessive dogmánál dogmáknál
illative dogmába dogmákba
sublative dogmára dogmákra
allative dogmához dogmákhoz
elative dogmából dogmákból
delative dogmáról dogmákról
ablative dogmától dogmáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		dogmáé dogmáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		dogmáéi dogmákéi
Possessive forms of dogma
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. dogmám dogmáim
2nd person sing. dogmád dogmáid
3rd person sing. dogmája dogmái
1st person plural dogmánk dogmáink
2nd person plural dogmátok dogmáitok
3rd person plural dogmájuk dogmáik

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • dogma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • dogma in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”).

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Noun[edit]

dogma m (plural dogmi)

  1. dogma

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Further reading[edit]

  • dogma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “I suppose, think, evince”), from δέχομαι (dékhomai, “I take, accept”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take”).

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Noun[edit]

dogma n (genitive dogmatis); third declension

  1. A philosophic tenet, doctrine, dogma
  2. A decree, order

Declension[edit]

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dogma dogmata
Genitive dogmatis dogmatum
Dative dogmatī dogmatibus
Accusative dogma dogmata
Ablative dogmate dogmatibus
Vocative dogma dogmata

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Descendants[edit]

  • → Armenian: դոգմա (dogma)
  • → Catalan: dogma
  • → Czech: dogma
  • → Danish: dogme
  • → Dutch: dogma
  • → English: dogma
  • → Finnish: dogmi
  • → French: dogme
  • → Galician: dogma
  • → German: Dogma
  • → Hungarian: dogma
  • → Italian: dogma
  • → Norwegian: dogme
  • → Portuguese: dogma
  • → Russian: догма (dogma)
  • → Spanish: dogma
  • → Swedish: dogm

References[edit]

  • “dogma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “dogma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dogma 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)
  • dogma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Noun[edit]

dogma n

  1. definite plural of dogme

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Noun[edit]

dogma n

  1. definite plural of dogme

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”).

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.ɡi.mɐ/, /ˈdɔɡ.mɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdɔɡ.ma/, /ˈdɔ.ɡi.ma/

  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun[edit]

dogma m (plural dogmas)

  1. (chiefly religion and philosophy) dogma (an indisputable and authoritative principle or belief)

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dôɡma/
  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun[edit]

dȍgma f (Cyrillic spelling до̏гма)

  1. dogma

Declension[edit]

Declension of dogma
singular plural
nominative dȍgma dogme
genitive dogme dȏgmā / dȏgmī
dative dogmi dogmama
accusative dogmu dogme
vocative dogmo dogme
locative dogmi dogmama
instrumental dogmom dogmama

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoɡma/ [ˈd̪oɣ̞.ma]
  • Rhymes: -oɡma
  • Syllabification: dog‧ma

Noun[edit]

dogma m (plural dogmas)

  1. dogma

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun[edit]

dogma (definite accusative dogmayı, plural dogmalar)

  1. (chiefly religion and philosophy) dogma (an indisputable and authoritative principle or belief)

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