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A stigma of a flower

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, St. Catherine of Siena, c. 1746

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark of slavery or disgrace”), from στίζω (stízō, “to mark”). Closely related to stigme, and distantly related to stick.

stigma (plural stigmata or stigmas)

  1. An indication 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.
    1. (historical) A permanent identity mark branded, cut or tattooed onto the skin, typically given to slaves, criminals and traitors.
    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. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
    4. (figurative, poetic, rare) An expression or behaviour revealing one's hidden feelings.
      • 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?
  2. A scar or birthmark.
  3. (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!
  4. (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
  5. (zoology) Synonym of pterostigma.

indication of infamy or disgrace

Christianity: mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

scar or birthmark

part of a flower

From Byzantine Greek στίγμα (stígma), likely coined by analogy with σίγμα (sígma).

stigma (plural stigmas)

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

Borrowed from Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark of slavery or disgrace”).

stigma n

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark of slavery or disgrace”).

stigma n (singular definite stigmaet, plural indefinite stigmata)

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark of slavery or disgrace”).

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

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)
  2. (Christianity) stigma (mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ)

From Byzantine Greek στίγμα (stígma), likely coined by analogy with σίγμα (sígma).

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

  1. (typography) stigma (a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau: Ϛ / ϛ)

Internationalism (see English stigma), ultimately from Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma).

stigma

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)

From Byzantine Greek στίγμα (stígma), likely coined by analogy with σίγμα (sígma).

stigma m (plural **stigma or stigmas)

  1. (typography) stigma (a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau: Ϛ / ϛ)
    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, “mark of slavery or disgrace”).

stigma m (plural stigmi)

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)
  2. (Christianity) stigma (mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ)

From Byzantine Greek στίγμα (stígma), likely coined by analogy with σίγμα (sígma).

stigma m or f (invariable)

  1. (typography) stigma (a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau: Ϛ / ϛ)

From Ancient Greek στῐ́γμᾰ (stĭ́gmă).

stigma n (genitive stigmatis); third declension

  1. (historical) stigma (a permanent identity mark branded, cut or tattooed onto the skin, typically given to slaves, criminals and traitors)

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

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stigma n (genitive stigmatis); third declension

  1. medieval spelling of stemma

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

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark of slavery or disgrace”).

stigma n

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)
    att ha många barn har gått från stigma till status
    to have many children has gone from stigma to status

stigma n

  1. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) stigma (mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ)

Rhannau'r blodyn: A. wyfa/ofari; B. papws; C. anther; D. llabed; E. colofnig gyda stigmâu.

Borrowed from English stigma, from Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark of slavery or disgrace”).

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

  1. stigma (an indication of infamy or disgrace)
    Synonyms: gwarthnod, haearnod

  2. (Christianity) stigma (mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ)

  3. (botany) stigma[2]
    Synonyms: nodyn, blaenig

  4. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “stigma”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

  5. ^ “Cylchred bywyd planhigyn”, in Gwyddoniaeth — Pethau byw — Planhigion‎[1] (in Welsh), BBC Bitesize, 2024, archived from the original on 7 February 2024, retrieved 7 February 2024