"stultus" meaning in Latin

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Adjective

IPA: [ˈstʊɫ.tʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈstul.tus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *stoltos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”). Cognate with stolidus, Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós), and perhaps Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*stel-}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*stoltos}} Proto-Italic *stoltos, {{der|la|ine-pro|*stel-||to set, be stiff}} Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”), {{cog|grc|στελεός}} Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós), {{cog|gem-pro|*stultaz|t=proud}} Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”) Head templates: {{la-adj|stultus|adv=stultē|comp=stultior|sup=stultissimus}} stultus (feminine stulta, neuter stultum, comparative stultior, superlative stultissimus, adverb stultē); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|stultus}} Forms: stulta [feminine], stultum [neuter], stultior [comparative], stultissimus [superlative], stultē [adverb], no-table-tags [table-tags], stultus [masculine, nominative, singular], stulta [feminine, nominative, singular], stultum [neuter, nominative, singular], stultī [masculine, nominative, plural], stultae [feminine, nominative, plural], stulta [neuter, nominative, plural], stultī [genitive, masculine, singular], stultae [feminine, genitive, singular], stultī [genitive, neuter, singular], stultōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], stultārum [feminine, genitive, plural], stultōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], stultō [dative, masculine, singular], stultae [dative, feminine, singular], stultō [dative, neuter, singular], stultīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], stultum [accusative, masculine, singular], stultam [accusative, feminine, singular], stultum [accusative, neuter, singular], stultōs [accusative, masculine, plural], stultās [accusative, feminine, plural], stulta [accusative, neuter, plural], stultō [ablative, masculine, singular], stultā [ablative, feminine, singular], stultō [ablative, neuter, singular], stultīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], stulte [masculine, singular, vocative], stulta [feminine, singular, vocative], stultum [neuter, singular, vocative], stultī [masculine, plural, vocative], stultae [feminine, plural, vocative], stulta [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. foolish, fatuous, stupid, ill-considered Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2 Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, īnsipiēns, brūtus, āmēns, dēmēns, stolidus, mōrus, blennus Derived forms: stultē, stultificō, stultiloquus, stultitia, stultividus
    Sense id: en-stultus-la-adj-6w3NCrlb Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 93 7

Noun

IPA: [ˈstʊɫ.tʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈstul.tus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *stoltos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”). Cognate with stolidus, Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós), and perhaps Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*stel-}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*stoltos}} Proto-Italic *stoltos, {{der|la|ine-pro|*stel-||to set, be stiff}} Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”), {{cog|grc|στελεός}} Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós), {{cog|gem-pro|*stultaz|t=proud}} Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”) Head templates: {{la-noun|stultus<2>}} stultus m (genitive stultī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|stultus<2>}} Forms: stultī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], stultus [nominative, singular], stultī [nominative, plural], stultī [genitive, singular], stultōrum [genitive, plural], stultō [dative, singular], stultīs [dative, plural], stultum [accusative, singular], stultōs [accusative, plural], stultō [ablative, singular], stultīs [ablative, plural], stulte [singular, vocative], stultī [plural, vocative]
  1. a fool, a simpleton Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-stultus-la-noun-5uaLwEI2 Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 18 82

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "stulto"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "stolto"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "estulto"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "estulto"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "stulta"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*stoltos",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/stoltos"
    ],
    [
      "*stel-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/stel-"
    ],
    [
      "stolidus",
      "stolidus#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "στελεός",
      "στελεός#Ancient_Greek"
    ],
    [
      "*stultaz",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stultaz"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*stel-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*stoltos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *stoltos",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*stel-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to set, be stiff"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "στελεός"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*stultaz",
        "t": "proud"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *stoltos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”). Cognate with stolidus, Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós), and perhaps Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stulta",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultior",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultissimus",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultē",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultē",
          "stulte"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultōrum",
          "stultorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultārum",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultārum",
          "stultarum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultōrum",
          "stultorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultō",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultō",
          "stulto#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultō",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultō",
          "stulto#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultīs",
          "stultis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultōs",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultōs",
          "stultos#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultās",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultās",
          "stultas#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultō",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultō",
          "stulto#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultā",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultā",
          "stulta#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultō",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultō",
          "stulto#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultīs",
          "stultis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stultus",
        "adv": "stultē",
        "comp": "stultior",
        "sup": "stultissimus"
      },
      "expansion": "stultus (feminine stulta, neuter stultum, comparative stultior, superlative stultissimus, adverb stultē); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stultus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "prūdēns"
        },
        {
          "word": "sapiēns"
        },
        {
          "word": "callidus"
        },
        {
          "word": "sollers"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "stultē"
        },
        {
          "word": "stultificō"
        },
        {
          "word": "stultiloquus"
        },
        {
          "word": "stultitia"
        },
        {
          "word": "stultividus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "foolish, fatuous, stupid, ill-considered"
      ],
      "id": "en-stultus-la-adj-6w3NCrlb",
      "links": [
        [
          "foolish",
          "foolish"
        ],
        [
          "fatuous",
          "fatuous"
        ],
        [
          "stupid",
          "stupid"
        ],
        [
          "ill-considered",
          "ill-considered"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fatuus"
        },
        {
          "word": "stupidus"
        },
        {
          "word": "īnsipiēns"
        },
        {
          "word": "brūtus"
        },
        {
          "word": "āmēns"
        },
        {
          "word": "dēmēns"
        },
        {
          "word": "stolidus"
        },
        {
          "word": "mōrus"
        },
        {
          "word": "blennus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈstʊɫ.tʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈstul.tus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stultus"
}

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*stoltos",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/stoltos"
    ],
    [
      "*stel-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/stel-"
    ],
    [
      "stolidus",
      "stolidus#Latin"
    ],
    [
      "στελεός",
      "στελεός#Ancient_Greek"
    ],
    [
      "*stultaz",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/stultaz"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*stel-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*stoltos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *stoltos",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*stel-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to set, be stiff"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "στελεός"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "*stultaz",
        "t": "proud"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Italic *stoltos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”). Cognate with stolidus, Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós), and perhaps Proto-Germanic *stultaz (“proud”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultōrum",
          "stultorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultō",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultō",
          "stulto#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultīs",
          "stultis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultōs",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultōs",
          "stultos#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultō",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultō",
          "stulto#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultīs",
          "stultis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stulte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stultī",
      "links": [
        [
          "stultī",
          "stulti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 551",
          "text": "Stultior stultō fuistī, quī tabellīs crēderēs.",
          "translation": "You were more foolish than a fool, trusting the tablets.\n(literally, “You were more foolish than a fool, who trusted the tablets.”)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Everything is full of fools.\n(literally, “All things are full of fools.”)",
          "ref": "62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 9.22",
          "text": "Stultōrum plēna sunt omnia.",
          "translation": "Everything is full of fools.\n(literally, “All things are full of fools.”)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a fool, a simpleton"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fool",
          "fool"
        ],
        [
          "simpleton",
          "simpleton"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈstʊɫ.tʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈstul.tus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stultus"
}

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