stigmatic

English

Etymology

stigma + -ic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɪɡˈmætɪk/

Adjective

stigmatic (comparative more stigmatic, superlative most stigmatic)

  1. (botany, anatomy) Having a stigma or stigmata.
  2. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character; stigmatized.
  3. Impressing with infamy or reproach.

Noun

stigmatic (plural stigmatics)

  1. One who has been branded as punishment.
    • 1685, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:
      from his Infancy branded for a stigmatick
  2. One who has been marked or deformed by nature.
  3. One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stigmatique.

Adjective

stigmatic m or n (feminine singular stigmatică, masculine plural stigmatici, feminine and neuter plural stigmatice)

  1. stigmatic

Declension

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