stimulus

See also Stimulus

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/

Noun

stimulus (plural stimuli)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system.

   an economic stimulus

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, New York Times:

     Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus, to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.

2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
3. (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.
4. (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

anything that may have an impact or influence on a system

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺激物 (cmn) (cìjīwù)

• Finnish: vaikute (fi), kannuste (fi), kiihoke (fi), ärsyke (fi); stimulus (fi) (scientific)
• French: stimulus (fr) m
• German: Auslöseimpuls (de) m

• Japanese: 刺激 (ja) (しげき, shigeki)
• Polish: bodziec (pl) m
• Portuguese: estímulo (pt) m
• Romanian: stimul (ro) m
• Russian: стимул (ru) (stímul) m, побудитель (ru) (pobudítelʹ) m, стимулятор (ru) (stimuljátor) m

in physiology: something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response

• Czech: podnět (cs) m
• Finnish: ärsyke, stimulus (scientific)
• German: Stimulus (de) m
• Polish: bodziec (pl) m

• Portuguese: estímulo (pt) m
• Romanian: stimul (ro) m
• Spanish: estímulo (es) m

in psychology: anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism

• Czech: podnět (cs) m
• Finnish: ärsyke, stimulus (scientific)
• German: Stimulus (de) m
• Polish: bodziec (pl) m

• Portuguese: estímulo (pt) m
• Romanian: stimul (ro) m
• Spanish: estímulo (es) m

anything that induces a person to take action

• Czech: podnět (cs) m
• Esperanto: sprono (eo)
• Finnish: ärsyke, stimulus (scientific)
• German: Auslöseimpuls (de) m

• Polish: bodziec (pl) m
• Portuguese: estímulo (pt) m
• Romanian: stimul (ro) m, motiv (ro) n
• Spanish: estímulo (es) m

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Translations to be checked

• Irish: spreagadh (ga) m

• Dutch: stimulans m, stimulus

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Verb

stimulus

1. conditional of stimuli

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin stimulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sti.my.lys/

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Noun

stimulus m (plural stimulus or stimuli)

1. stimulus

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Latin

Noun

stimulus (genitive stimulī); m, second declension

1. A goad, prick
2. A sting
3. (figuratively) stimulus, incentive

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	stimulus	stimulī
genitive	stimulī	stimulōrum
dative	stimulō	stimulīs
accusative	stimulum	stimulōs
ablative	stimulō	stimulīs
vocative	stimule	stimulī

Related terms

• stimulātiō
• stimulō

Descendants

• English: stimulus
• French: stimulus
• Italian: stimulina
• Portuguese: estímulo
• Romanian: strămurare
• Russian: стимул
• Spanish: estímulo

References

• stimulus in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879