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stimulus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?st?m.j?.l?s/
Noun
stimulus (plural stimuluses or stimuli)
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Any external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon.
- an economic stimulus
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Anything that induces a person to take action.
Synonyms
- (anything that may have an impact or influence): influence
- (anything that induces a person to take action): impetus, impulse, spur
Translations
Esperanto
Verb
stimulus
- conditional of stimuli
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stimulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti.my.lys/
Noun
stimulus m (plural stimulus or stimuli)
- stimulus
Further reading
- “stimulus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (stíz?, “I mark”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?sti.mu.lus/, [?s?t??m????s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?sti.mu.lus/, [?st?i?mulus]
Noun
stimulus m (genitive stimul?); second declension
- a goad, prick
- a sting
- (figuratively) stimulus, incentive
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Related terms
- stimul?ti?
- stimul?
Descendants
References
- stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stimulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- stimulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- stimulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Probably from Latin
Noun
stimulus m (definite singular stimulusen, indefinite plural stimuli, definite plural stimuliene)
- a stimulus
Related terms
- stimulere
References
- “stimulus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Probably from Latin
Noun
stimulus m (definite singular stimulusen, indefinite plural stimuli or stimulusar, definite plural stimuliane or stimulusane)
- a stimulus
References
- “stimulus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
stimulus From the web:
- what stimulus initiates the defecation reflex
- what stimulus check
- what stimulus bill passed
- what stimulus package
- what stimulus package passed today
- what stimulus causes the release of renin
- what stimulus mean
- what stimulus package is next
incitement
English
Alternative forms
- encitement
Etymology
From French incitement, from Latin incit?mentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incit? (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?sa?t.m?nt/
Noun
incitement (plural incitements)
- A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.
Translations
incitement From the web:
- what incitement of insurrection mean
- what incitement means
- what does incitement mean
- what is incitement in law
- what is incitement to violence
- what is incitement speech
- what is incitement to imminent lawless action
- what is incitement of resurrection
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