dogma

Etymology

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒɡ.mə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡ.mə/, /ˈdɑɡ.mə/

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• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun

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.

   The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.

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. Or, The Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or The Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations, London: Printed for Hen[ry] Brome at the Signe of the Gun in Ivy-lane, OCLC 48702491; reprinted as Hydriotaphia (The English Replicas), New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd., 1927, OCLC 78413388, 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.

See also

• axioma
• creed

Anagrams

• GOMAD, go mad

Noun

dogma n

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

dogma n (plural dogma's, diminutive dogmaatje n)

1. A dogma

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. dogmatic, dogmatical

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɡmɒ]
• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

Noun

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)

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡma/

• Audio

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Noun

dogma m (plural dogmi)

1. A dogma

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡ.ma/, [ˈdɔɡ.ma]

Noun

dogma n (genitive dogmatis); third declension

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

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• dogma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Alternative forms

• dogmene

Noun

dogma n

1. definite plural of dogme

Noun

dogma n

1. definite plural of dogme

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dogma m (plural dogmas)

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dȍgma f (Cyrillic spelling до̏гма)

1. dogma

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡma/, [ˈd̪oɣma]

Noun

dogma m (plural dogmas)

1. dogma

Further reading

• “dogma” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.