dogma

See also: Dogma

English

WOTD – 13 February 2009

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.
    • 2018 November 22, John Hayward, "Give Thanks To What Remains Of Free Speech", Breitbart.com
      The principle remains the sane: the horizons of acceptable speech must contract because authority must not be questioned and dogma must not be challenged.
  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: Printed for Hen[ry] Brome [], 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.

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Czech

Noun

dogma n

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

Declension


Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. A dogma

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

  1. dogmatic, dogmatical

Hungarian

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)

Declension

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
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

References

  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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔɡma/
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Noun

dogma m (plural dogmi)

  1. A dogma

Latin

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

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

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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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

dogma n

  1. definite plural of dogme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dogma n

  1. definite plural of dogme

Portuguese

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)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dȍgma f (Cyrillic spelling до̏гма)

  1. dogma

Declension


Spanish

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

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