The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδόγμα“opinion, tenet”
- Latin · borrowed fromdogma“philosophical tenet”
- English todaydogma
From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata. Compare decent.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.