stigmatise
Meaningto brand
Common meaning: to mark out as shameful
- stigto prick; a mark, brandLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 746 · scan
- matGreek stem ending of nouns in -ma
- iseverb ending: to make, to do
Journey through time
- Greekστίζω; στίγμα‘to prick’
- Frenchstigmatiser
- Englishstigmatise‘to mark out as shameful’ · today
stig also in: stigma
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek στίζω; στίγμα ‘to prick; a mark, brand’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry στίζω, p. 746 · dictionary scan
Roots
- στίζω; στίγμα Greek “to prick; a mark, brand”
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