different between heterodox vs ortodox

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (heteródoxos), from ?????? (héteros, “other, another, different”) + ???? (dóxa, “opinion”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?t???d?ks/

Adjective

heterodox (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from orthodoxy, or the norm, but not sufficiently different to be called heretical.

   The Church of Alexandria in Egypt is considered heterodox, not heretical.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XVI:

     Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir? {...} I declined answering Mrs. Dean’s question, which struck me as something heterodox.

Antonyms

• orthodox

Related terms

• heterodoxy
• hetero-
• heretical

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.t?.ro??d?ks/
• Hyphenation: he?te?ro?dox
• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

heterodox (not comparable)

1. heterodox (deviating from some orthodoxy, whether religious or ideological)

Inflection

Antonyms

• orthodox

Related terms

• heterodoxie
• onorthodox

Romanian

Adjective

heterodox m or n (feminine singular heterodox?, masculine plural heterodoc?i, feminine and neuter plural heterodoxe)

1. Alternative form of eterodox

Declension

Catalan

Adjective

ortodox (feminine ortodoxa, masculine plural ortodoxos, feminine plural ortodoxes)

1. Orthodox

Hungarian

Etymology

From German orthodox, from Ancient Greek ????????? (orthódoxos), from ????? (orthós, “straight”) + ???? (dóxa, “opinion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ortodoks]
• Hyphenation: or?to?dox
• Rhymes: -oks

Adjective

ortodox (not comparable)

1. orthodox

Declension

Noun

ortodox (plural ortodoxok)

1. one that is orthodox

Declension

References

Further reading

• ortodox in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek ????????? (orthódoxos), Latin orthodoxus, French orthodoxe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /or.to?doks/

Adjective

ortodox m or n (feminine singular ortodox?, masculine plural ortodoc?i, feminine and neuter plural ortodoxe)

1. Orthodox

Declension

Noun

ortodox m (plural ortodoc?i)

1. Orthodox

Declension

References

• ortodox in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Adjective

ortodox (comparative mer ortodox, superlative mest ortodox)

1. orthodox (of people, churches, traditions, institutions), belonging or pertaining to the (Greek, Russian) Orthodox Church

Usage notes

• Can be used as a noun, meaning an orthodox person.

Declension

Related terms

• ortodoxi
• ultraortodox