Word Origin Summary

Στίγμα is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• stigmata

  English · derived from

• astigmatisme

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• estigma

  Spanish · derived from

• stigma

  Finnish · derived from

• astigmatisme

  Catalan · borrowed from

• στίγμα

  Greek · inherited from

• astigmatism

  English · derived from

• Astigmata

  Translingual · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root