Etymology

stulty

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Today it means: Foolish; silly, stupid. Full definition →

Middle English stulty ← Latin stultus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromstultus“foolish”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromstulty
  3. English todaystulty

From Middle English stulty, probably from Latin stultus (“foolish”) + -y.

Words from the same roots

Latinstultus all →

stultedstultify

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.