different between stigma vs stigmatizing

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 1

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (stígma, “brand”), from ????? (stíz?, “I mark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??m?/

Noun

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. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
5. (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.

Derived terms

• stigmatize

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

stigma (plural stigmas)

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

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• mistag

Czech

Etymology

From Latin stigma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sc??ma]
• Hyphenation: stig?ma

Noun

stigma n

1. stigma, stain

Declension

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?ma/, [?sd?i?ma] or IPA^(key): /stikma/, [?sd?i??ma]

Noun

stigma n (singular definite stigmaet, plural indefinite stigmata)

1. stigma

Inflection

Related terms

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

Further reading

• stigma on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Finnish

Noun

stigma

1. stigma

Declension

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (stígma, “brand”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?.ma/

Noun

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.

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

stigma m (plural stigmi)

1. stigma (all senses)

stigma m or f (invariable)

1. stigma (Greek ligature)

Related terms

• stigmata
• stigmatizzare

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sti?.ma/, [?s?t???mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sti?.ma/, [?st?i?m?]

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ?????? (stígma).

Noun

stigma n (genitive stigmatis); third declension

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

Declension

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

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Collateral form of stemma.

Noun

stigma n (genitive stigmatis); third declension

1. medieval spelling of stemma

Declension

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

References

• 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, 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: Brill, page 991/2

Swedish

Noun

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

Usage notes

• A Latin plural stigmata is also used.

Declension

Related terms

• stigmatisera

English

Verb

stigmatizing

1. present participle of stigmatize