Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Gr. paleog., a dot used as a punctuation-mark; especially, a dot placed at the top of the line, like the later Greek colon, and having the value of a period.
- noun In Greek prosody, a dot placed over a time or syllable to mark the ictus.
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- noun obsolete, rare Anglicised form of
stigma
Etymologies
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An adaptation of the short stem (stigm-, στιγμ-) of the Latin stigma and the Ancient Greek στίγμα (stigma). Compare stigmal and stigmate; hypodigm and paradigm; hexastigm, polystigm, tetrastigm, and tristigm.
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(stagme chronou); but the original text was perhaps stigme chronou, "a moment of time."
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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