stultitia Latin · revision 31028

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *stoltos}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [stʊɫˈtɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [stulˈtit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''stultitia''' ''f'' (genitive stultitiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|stultus|t=foolish]] with the suffix [[m|la|-itia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨stultus⟩ from ⟨*stolto-⟩, perhaps [[m|ine-pro|*stl̥-to-]], and calls the further etymology uncertain, Pokorny connected it and [[m|la|stolidus|t=dull]] with [[ine-pro|*stel-|t=to place]], so that both first meant “inert”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary reconstructs [[itc-pro|*stoltos]] and compares [[grc|στελεός|tr=steleós]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler give Plautus as its first author.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) In the ''Truculentus'' a character admits “that deed is mine, the folly is mine”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is stupidity or folly, which Cicero distinguishes from mere error: “not every error should be called folly”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a particular foolish act, as Cicero's man who could not bear people's absurdities and follies.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “foolishness, folly, stupidity”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a foolish act.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of folly as against error.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|folly|alt=Folly]], [[m|en|stupidity]], foolishness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A foolish act.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stultus]]

+ * [[stolidus]]

+ * [[īnsipientia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}