dogma

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.

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

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• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

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, 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.

• axioma
• creed

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Dogma”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 583, column 1.

• GOMAD, go mad

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdoɡ.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈdoɡ.ma]

dogma m (plural dogmes)

1. dogma

• dogmatitzar

• dogmàtic
• dogmatisme

• “dogma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dogma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “dogma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dogma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɡma]

dogma n

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔx.maː/

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

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

• geloofspunt
• leerstelling
• leerstuk

• dogmaticus
• dogmatisch
• dogmatisme

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡma/

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• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

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

1. dogmatic, dogmatical

• dogmo

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

dogma m (plural dogmas)

1. dogma

• dogmatizar

• dogmático
• dogmatismo

• “dogma”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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

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

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)

• 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 2024)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡ.ma/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɡma
• Hyphenation: dòg‧ma

dogma m (plural dogmi)

1. dogma

• dogmatico

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

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪ɔɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪ɔɡmä]

dogma n (genitive dogmatis); third declension

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

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

• dogmaticus m
• dogmatistes m

• “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.

• dogmene

dogma n

1. definite plural of dogme

dogma n

1. definite plural of dogme

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

• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

dogma m (plural dogmas)

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

• dogmático

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

dȍgma f (Cyrillic spelling до̏гма)

1. dogma

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

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

dogma m (plural dogmas)

1. dogma

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

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

• IPA^(key): /doɡma/, [doɡma]

• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

dogma (definite accusative dogmayı, plural dogmalar)

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

• dogmatik