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- Latin · borrowed fromstimulus“goad, prick”
- English todaystimulus
Borrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”).
Words from the same roots
Latinstimulus all →
stimulate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stimulus
Today it means: An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour. Full definition →
Latin stimulus