Etymology

stolidly

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Today it means: In a stolid manner. Full definition →

English stolid ← Middle French stolide ← Latin stolidus
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  1. Latinstolidus
  2. Middle Frenchstolide
  3. Englishstolid
  4. English todaystolidly

From stolid + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.