στίγμα

English (LSJ)

ατος, τό,

   A tattoo-mark, Hdt.5.35, Arist.HA585b33, GA721b32, IG42(1).121.48, al. (Epid., iv B.C.), Polyaen.1.24; σ. ἱρά, showing that the persons so marked were devoted to the service of the temple, Hdt. 2.113; esp. of a slave, Pl.Com.187, Ps.-Phoc.225, Cod.Theod.10. 22.4; or a soldier, ibid., Aët.8.12; στίγματα ἐξαίρει βατράχειον καταπλασθέν Dsc.Eup. 1.110: so metaph., σ. Ἰησοῦ Ep.Gal.6.17 (pl.); ἀνωφελῆ σ., of inscribed laws, D.Chr.80.5.    2 generally, mark, spot, as on the dragon's skin, Hes.Sc.166, cf. Paus.8.2.7, 8.4.7.    3 stud, LXX Ca.1.11.    4 σ. χρυσοῦν colour of gold, Ps.Democr. ap.Zos.Alch.p.119 B., cf.p.126 B.    5= cicatricis signum, Gloss.    6 (ϛ) is a ligature of the Greek letters sigma (Σ) and tau (Τ), which was used in writing Greek between the Middle Ages and the 19th century. It is also used as a numeral symbol for the number 6. In this unrelated function, it is a continuation of the old letter digamma (originally Ϝ, cursive form Greek Digamma), which had served as a numeral since antiquity and was conflated with the σ-τ ligature in the minuscule handwriting of the Middle Ages.

German (Pape)

[Seite 943] τό, der Stich, der. mit einem spitzigen Werkzeuge gemachte Punkt, Arist. H. A. 7, 6, – Zeichen, Brandmal, Her. 7, 233; – von den Flecken auf der Haut des Drachen Hes. Sc. 166, wo Herm. στιγμαί lesen will.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

στίγμα: τό, (στίζω) τὸ κέντημα τῆς αἰχμῆς ὀξέως ἐργαλείου, σημεῖον ὅπερ ἀφίνει, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 7. 6, 6· στ. ἐγγράφειν κεφαλῇ Πολύαιν. 1. 24· μάλιστα δὲ σημεῖον ἀνεξίτηλον διὰ καυτηριασμοῦ, στ. ἱρά, δεικνύοντα ὅτι οἱ φέροντες αὐτὰ ἀνῆκον εἰς τὴν ὑπηρεσίαν τοῦ ναοῦ, Ἡρόδ. 2. 113, πρβλ. 5. 35 καὶ ἴδε στίζω· μάλιστα ἐπὶ δρεπάνου δούλου, Πλάτ. Κωμικ. ἐν «Ὑπερβόλῳ» 2 (πρβλ. Ἐπιστ. πρ. Γαλ. Ϛ΄, 17). 2) καθόλου, σημεῖον, οἷον ἐπὶ τοῦ δέρματος τοῦ δράκοντος, Ἡσ. Ἀσπ. Ἡρ. 166 (ἔνθα ὁ Ἕρμανν. προκρίνει τὴν γραφὴν στιγμαὶ δ᾿ ὡς ἐπέφαντο .. κυάνεαι κατὰ νῶτα).

French (Bailly abrégé)

ατος (τό) :
1 piqûre, marque sur la peau, particul. marque au fer rouge ; tatouage;
2 t. de gramm. virgule, ponctuation;
3 t. de géom. point (concurrencé par σημεῖον);
4 le signe numérique Ϛ, 6.
Étymologie: στίζω.

English (Strong)

from a primary stizo (to "stick", i.e. prick); a mark incised or punched (for recognition of ownership), i.e. (figuratively) scar of service: mark.

English (Thayer)

στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latin stimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so ) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Lightfoot s Commentary on Galatians , the passage cited). (Herodotus 7,233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)