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Where does “stolide” come from?

stolide (Middle French) comes from Latin stolidus, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.

Ancestry of “stolide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinstolidusstupid, foolish
2Proto-Indo-Europeanster-sterile, infertile

Words derived from “stolide”

  • stolid
  • stolidly
  • stolidity
  • stolidness
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