Translation
stupid, silly
Word origin
From Latin stultus, 'foolish'. English kept the root only in the rather formal stultify; Esperanto uses it as the everyday word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- stultus
- English cognates
- stultify
Examples
.
That was a stupid question.
.
I made a stupid mistake.
, !
Do not be silly, come with us!
The straightforward opposite of , and the affix system will also build you a with the same meaning; is the blunter of the two. A fool is o, with the person suffix --, and o is a stupid thing done or said. Aim it at ideas and mistakes rather than people, as you would in English.
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