Where does “stimulatory” come from?
Stimulatory derives from English stimulate plus the suffix -y, from Latin stimulāre meaning "to prick or goad," itself from stimulus meaning "goad or incentive."
stimulatory (English): stimulative; serving to stimulate
Definitions
- stimulative; serving to stimulate
Ancestry of “stimulatory”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stimulate | To encourage into action; To arouse an organism... |
| 2 | Latin | stimulātus | stimulated |
| 3 | Latin | stimulō | to urge on, goad on, stimulate, rouse up |
| 4 | Latin | stimulus | a goad, prick; a sting; stimulus, incentive |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | stey- | to stick; compress; condense |
Words derived from “stimulatory”
- costimulatory
- immunostimulatory
- allostimulatory
- poststimulatory
- phagostimulatory
- myostimulatory
- psychostimulatory
- angiostimulatory
- unstimulatory
- autostimulatory
- biostimulatory
- cardiostimulatory
- ciliostimulatory
- counterstimulatory
- cytostimulatory
- hyperstimulatory
- hypostimulatory
- lymphostimulatory
- mechanostimulatory
- neurostimulatory
- nonstimulatory
- osteostimulatory
- photostimulatory
- phytostimulatory