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”). Distantly related to stick. (Compare Middle English stigme, from the same Latin source.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪɡmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡmə

stigma (plural stigmata or stigmas)

1. A mark of infamy or disgrace.
   • 2023 September 8, David Donachie, A Shred of Honour: A Markham of the Marines Novel, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 2:

     But to have as an enforced dining companion a man who was probably a Papist, certainly a rake, and bore the stigma of cowardice, was anathema.

2. (figurative) A negative and often unfair attitude (held by a group or society, to something). [1980s?–]
   • 1982, Journal of Gerontological Nursing:

     Yet, because of the stigma around nursing home placement, it is hard to find advocates from among the natural advocacy groups the families. You don't see families organized around long-term care as you do around specific diseases.

   • 2010 March 18, Dora Kohen, Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     Hence, the stigma attached to mental disorders in general forms the basis of the stigma towards women with mental health problems. […]

   • 2018 March 8, Darko Pozder, Without Stigma: About the Stigma of the Mental Illness, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     Coming into contact with the person affected by mental illness can help reduce the stigma that the public has towards the illness.

   • 2024 December 15, Amy Speier, Mobility in North American Surrogacy: A Fertile Global Industry, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, →ISBN, page 67:

     ... the stigma in the United States about the lower class accessing “welfare,”  […]

3. A scar or birthmark.
4. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus's body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
5. (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?

7. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.

   Synonym: (obsolete) summit

   • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎^[2], Macmillan, page 202:

     Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

   • 1982, Dennis Linde, “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!

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

• orbicular stigma
• social stigma
• stigmatic
• stigmatize
• stigmatose

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stigma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• stigma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stigmata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stigma (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mistag

Borrowed from Latin stigma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstɪɡma]
• 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

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

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stigma n (plural stigma's or stigmata, diminutive stigmaatje n)

1. stigma (mark of infamy or disgrace)
2. (Christianity) stigma (wound on Christ's body)
3. stigma (Greek ligature)

• stigma on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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

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

stigma

1. stigma

• “stigma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

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.

   Contrary to how the eye might lead you to believe, stigma isn't a Greek terminal sigma: in effect, it's the evolution of the ligature of a lunate sigma with a tau.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈstiɡ.ma/
• Rhymes: -iɡma
• Hyphenation: stìg‧ma

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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɪɡ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪iɡ.ma]

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).

• distigmus

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 (something strongly looked down upon)

   att ha många barn har gått från stigma till status

   to have many children has gone from stigma to status

2. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) a stigma

The Latin plural stigmata is usually only used in the Christian sense.

• stigmatisera

• stigma in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stigma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stigma in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from English stigma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪɡma/

stigma m (plural stigmâu, not mutable)^[1]

1. stigma, sign of disgrace

   Synonyms: gwarthnod, haearnod

2. stigma, mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
3. (botany) stigma^[2]

   Synonyms: nodyn, blaenig