stigma

• stigmat (Anglicised long stem)
• stigmate
• stigme (Anglicised short stem, obsolete, rare)

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “brand”), from στίζω (stízō, “I mark”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪɡmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡmə

stigma (plural stigmata or stigmas)

1. A mark of infamy or disgrace.
2. A scar or birthmark.
3. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
4. (literary, figurative) An outward sign; an indication.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:

     Bradly scowled - the stigmata of alarm. What ultimate threat to his peace and privacy did this dropping in by young Podson imply?

5. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
   • 1982, Dennis Linde (lyrics and music), “Reproduction”, in Grease 2:

     Now you see just how the stamen gets its lusty dust onto the stigma / And why this frenzied chlorophyllous orgy starts in spring is no enigma!

6. (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.

• stigmatic
• stigmatize

Partly from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark, sign”), and partly from the acrophonic value of its initial st- as well as the analogy with the name of sigma.

stigma (plural stigmas)

1. (typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).

• stigma in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “stigma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• stigma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stigmata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stigma (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mistag

Borrowed from Latin stigma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈscɪɡma]
• Hyphenation: stig‧ma

stigma n

1. stigma, stain

From Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “brand”).

• IPA^(key): /stiːma/, [ˈsd̥iːma] or IPA^(key): /stikma/, [ˈsd̥iɡ̊ma]

stigma n (singular definite stigmaet, plural indefinite stigmata)

1. stigma

• stigmatisere ("stigmatize")
• stigmatisering ("stigmatization")

• stigma on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Internationalism (see English stigma), ultimately from Latin stigma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstiɡmɑ/, [ˈs̠tiɡmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɡmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): stig‧ma

stigma

1. stigma

From Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “brand”).

• IPA^(key): /stiɡ.ma/

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stigma m (plural stigmas)

1. stigma (Greek letter)

   Contrairement à ce que l'œil pourrait laisser croire, stigma n'est pas un sigma final grec : en effet, c'est l'évolution de la ligature d'un sigma lunaire avec un tau.

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma).

stigma m (plural stigmi)

1. stigma (all senses)

stigma m or f (invariable)

1. stigma (Greek ligature)

• stigmata
• stigmatizzare

• stigma¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• stigma² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstiɡ.ma/, [ˈs̠t̪ɪɡmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstiɡ.ma/, [ˈst̪iɡmä]

From the Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma).

stigma n (genitive stigmatis); third declension

1. brand (burned mark, especially on a slave)

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

• Catalan: estigma
• English: stigma, stigmat, stigme
• French: stigmate
• Galician: estigma
• Irish: stiogma
• Italian: stigma
• Polish: stygmat
• Portuguese: estigma
• Romanian: stigmă
• Spanish: estigma

Collateral form of stemma.

stigma n (genitive stigmatis); third declension

1. medieval spelling of stemma

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

• “stigma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stigma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stigma 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)
• stigma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “stigma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “2. stigma”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 991/2

stigma n

1. a stigma

   att ha många barn har gått från stigma till status

   to have many children has gone from stigma to status

• A Latin plural stigmata is also used.

• stigmatisera