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.

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• (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.

   • 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.

• axioma
• creed

• GOMAD, go mad

dogma n

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

• dogmatický
• dogmatik
• dogmatika
• dogmatismus m

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

1. A dogma

• geloofspunt n
• leerstelling
• leerstuk n

• dogmaticus m
• dogmatisch (adjective)
• dogmatisme n

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

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

1. dogmatic, dogmatical

• dogmo

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

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

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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɡma/

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dogma m (plural dogmi)

1. A dogma

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/, [ˈdɔɡ.ma]

dogma n (genitive dogmatis); third declension

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

Third declension neuter.

• 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, 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

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

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

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, “I seem good, think”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡma/, [ˈd̪oɣma]

dogma m (plural dogmas)

1. dogma

• dogmático
• dogmatismo

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