Etymology

stolid

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Today it means: Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility. Full definition →

Middle French stolide ← Latin stolidus
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  1. Latinstolidus
  2. Middle Frenchstolide
  3. English todaystolid

From Middle French stolide, from Latin stolidus (“foolish, obtuse, slow”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.