stultus, stulta, stultum

Definitions for stultus

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
foolish
English derivatives:
stultify stultification

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
(of persons, etc.) Slow-witted, stupid, dense, foolish, unintelligent. (b) ~orum feriae (festa), a name for the Quirinalia.
2
(of actions, remarks, etc.) Characterized by stupidity, silly, inept, foolish.

Sentences with stultus

Latin to English

Multī sunt stultī.Compare Many (men) are foolish.

Stultus vir perīcula bellī laudat.Compare The foolish man praises the dangers of war.

Animī plūrimōrum hominum tam stultī sunt ut discere nōn cupiant.Compare The souls of very many men are so foolish that they do not wish to learn.

Illī stultī semper rogant quid sit melius quam imperium aut pecūnia.Compare Those foolish men always ask what is better than power or money.

Offero tu periculum sine causa, qui nihil possum sum stultus.Compare You have exposed yourself to dangers without a cause, than which nothing can be more foolish.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 28.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1831.
Word frequencies
Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119-219.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "stultus, stulta, stultum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified October 4, 2023. Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/stultus-stulta-stultum.