dogma

From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “I seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata. Compare 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
• pragma
• 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dogma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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]

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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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• Rhymes: -oɡma
• Hyphenation: dog‧ma

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

1. dogmatic, dogmatical

• dogmo

Internationalism (see English dogma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡmɑ/, [ˈdo̞ɡmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oɡmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): dog‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): dog‧ma

dogma

1. alternative form of dogmi

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, 2012–2025

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)

• dogma in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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): [ˈdɔɡ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɔɡ.ma]

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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Learned borrowing from Latin dogma, from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “belief”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”).

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

dogma (definite accusative dogmayı, plural dogmalar)

1. (chiefly religion and philosophy) dogma (an indisputable and authoritative principle or belief)

• dogmatik