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 also 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.
   • 2015, Tad Brennan, Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus:

     If he has a dogma, i.e. a scientifico-philosophical theory, then he is not any sort of Skeptic, not even an urbane Skeptic.

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.

   • [a. 1881, William B[allantyne] Hodgson, “Noun”, in Errors in the Use of English, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1881, part II (Accidence), page 70:

     Other foreign terms have become so thoroughly Anglicised as to adopt English plurals, and it is sometimes difficult to decide whether the English or the original foreign form is the more correct. None but a pedant would speak of ‘the chori of an opera,’ ‘the croci in a garden,’ or ‘the dogmata of the church;’ […]]

   • 1909, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, Charles Alexander Nelson, Educational Review - Volume 37, page 383:

     The man who thinks that his religion is the sum-total of the religious dogmas he believes in, who thinks that to live in harmony with the allhood of things it requires only that one subscribe to certain prescribed religious dogmas, in whose mind the means of salvation is simply frequency and fervency of prayer, assiduity and fidelity of attendance on worship, — in the case of that man his so-called religion is just as apt as not to become an actual aid to immorality, for it is not religion at all, but purblind, self-righteous Pharisaism.

• axioma
• creed

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Dogma”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume 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): (Valencia) [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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• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

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, 2012–2024

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)

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	dogmáé	dogmáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	dogmáéi	dogmákéi

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

• 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 Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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 Latin) 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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