stimulo

• IPA^(key): /stiˈmulo/
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: sti‧mu‧lo

stimulo (uncountable, accusative stimulon)

1. stimulation

   Synonym: stimulado

stimulo (plural stimulos)

1. stimulus

• stimular

From stimulus (“goad; sting; spur, incentive”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstɪ.mʊ.ɫoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪iː.mu.lo]

stimulō (present infinitive stimulāre, perfect active stimulāvī, supine stimulātum); first conjugation

1. to urge on, goad on, stimulate, rouse up

   Synonyms: urgeō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, irrītō, sollicitō, percieō, concieō, cieō, excitō, concitō, impellō, īnflammō, incendō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, ērigō

   Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, restinguō, plācō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō

2. to torment, vex, trouble, disquiet, disturb

   Synonyms: fatīgō, turbō, perturbō, sollicitō, irrītō, peragō, agitō, angō, disturbō, īnfestō, ēvertō, concitō, moveō, agō, versō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

• “stimulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stimulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stimulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • his guilty conscience gives him no rest: conscientiae maleficiorum stimulant aliquem