Stigme

Origin

An adaptation of the short stem (stigm-, στιγμ-) of the Latin stigma and the Ancient Greek στίγμα. Compare stigmal and stigmate; hypodigm and paradigm; hexastigm, polystigm, tetrastigm, and tristigm.

Full definition of stigme

Noun

1. (obsolete, rare) Form of Anglicised form
• c. 1400, Apology for Lollard Doctrines, page 92:Èœe schal not prik ȝor flesch, ne mak to ȝow ani figeris, ne stigmes, þat are woundis.
• Ye shall not prick your flesh, nor make to you any figures, nor stigmes, that are wounds.
• a. 1619, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix (1622), book I, chapter iv, § 1, page 20:None..haue..branded any nation with the marke and stigme of Atheisme.