dogma
See also: Dogma
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
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NounEdit
dogma (countable and uncountable, plural dogmas or dogmata)
- 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.
- 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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TranslationsEdit
authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion
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doctrine
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CzechEdit
NounEdit
dogma n
- dogma (authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion)
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NounEdit
dogma n (plural dogma's, diminutive dogmaatje n)
- A dogma
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Derived termsEdit
- dogmaticus m
- dogmatisch (adjective)
- dogmatisme n
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AdjectiveEdit
dogma (accusative singular dogman, plural dogmaj, accusative plural dogmajn)
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EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem good, think”).[1]
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NounEdit
dogma (plural dogmák)
- 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)
- dogma (a doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, →ISBN
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EtymologyEdit
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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NounEdit
dogma n (genitive dogmatis); third declension
InflectionEdit
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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ReferencesEdit
- 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
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”).
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NounEdit
dogma m (plural dogmas)
- (chiefly religion and philosophy) dogma (an indisputable and authoritative principle or belief)