stultus

stultus

1. conditional of stulti

From Proto-Italic *stoltos, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to set, be stiff”). Cognate with stolidus, Ancient Greek στελεός (steleós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstul.tus/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊɫ̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstul.tus/, [ˈst̪ul̪t̪us]

stultus (feminine stulta, neuter stultum, comparative stultior, superlative stultissimus, adverb stultē); first/second-declension adjective

1. foolish, fatuous, stupid, ill-considered

   Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, īnsipiēns, brūtus, āmēns, dēmēns, stolidus, blennus; see also Thesaurus:homo stultus

   Antonyms: prūdēns, sapiēns, callidus, sollers

First/second-declension adjective.

• stultē
• stultitia

• Spanish: estulto
• → Esperanto: stulta
• Italian: stolto
• Portuguese: estulto

• “stultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stultus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stultus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.