dogmatism

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδόγμα“opinion, tenet”
2. Latin · borrowed fromdogma“philosophical tenet”
3. French · derived fromdogmatisme
4. English todaydogmatism

From French dogmatisme, from Ecclesiastical Latin dogmatismus. Derived 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.

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