Word Origin Summary

Stimulus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *(s)teyg-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• стимул

  Ukrainian · derived from

• stimolo

  Italian · derived from

• stimulus

  Indonesian · derived from

• estímulo

  Spanish · borrowed from

• strămurare

  Romanian · inherited from

• strimburari

  Aromanian · inherited from

• estímulo

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• stimul

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root