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6-letter words (1 found)

STIGMA,

5-letter words (8 found)

AGISM,AGIST,GAITS,MAIST,SIGMA,STAIG,TAIGS,TAMIS,

4-letter words (28 found)

AIMS,AITS,AMIS,GAIT,GAMS,GAST,GATS,GISM,GIST,GITS,ITAS,MAGI,MAGS,MAST,MATS,MIGS,MIST,SAIM,SATI,SIMA,SMIT,STAG,STIM,TAGS,TAIG,TAIS,TAMS,TIGS,

3-letter words (33 found)

AGS,AIM,AIS,AIT,AMI,ATS,GAM,GAS,GAT,GIS,GIT,ISM,ITA,ITS,MAG,MAS,MAT,MIG,MIS,SAG,SAI,SAM,SAT,SIG,SIM,SIT,SMA,TAG,TAI,TAM,TAS,TIG,TIS,

2-letter words (14 found)

AG,AI,AM,AS,AT,GI,IS,IT,MA,MI,SI,ST,TA,TI,

You can make 84 words from stigma according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stigma

stigma

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 1

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “brand”), from στίζω (stízō, “I mark”). Distantly related to stick.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɪɡmə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪɡmə

Noun

stigma (plural stigmata or stigmas)

  1. A mark of infamy or disgrace.
    1. Discriminatory attitudes. [2000?–]
  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. (literary, figurative) An outward sign; an indication.
  5. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
    Synonym: (obsolete) summit
  6. (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
Derived terms
  • orbicular stigma
  • social stigma
  • stigmatic
  • stigmatize
Translations

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

stigma (plural stigmas)

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

Further reading

  • “stigma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “stigma”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • stigma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • stigmata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • stigma (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • mistag

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stigma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstɪɡma]
  • Hyphenation: stig‧ma

Noun

stigma n

  1. stigma, stain

Declension

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stiːma/, [ˈsd̥iːma] or IPA(key): /stikma/, [ˈsd̥iɡ̊ma]

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • stigma on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

stigma

  1. stigma

Declension

Further reading

  • “stigma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stiɡ.ma/

Noun

stigma m (plural stigmas)

  1. stigma (Greek letter)

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

stigma m (plural stigmi)

  1. stigma (all senses)

Noun

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): /ˈstiɡ.ma/, [ˈs̠t̪ɪɡmä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstiɡ.ma/, [ˈst̪iɡmä]

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek στίγμα (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
  • Romanian: stigmă
  • 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 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

Swedish

Noun

stigma n

  1. a stigma (something strongly looked down upon)
  2. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) a stigma

Usage notes

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

Declension

Related terms

  • stigmatisera

References

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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English stigma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɪɡma/

Noun

stigma m (plural stigmâu, not mutable)

  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
    Synonyms: nodyn, blaenig

Mutation

References


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