stultifico

Latin

Etymology

From stultus +‎ -ficō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /stulˈti.fi.koː/, [s̠t̪ʊɫ̪ˈt̪ɪfɪkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /stulˈti.fi.ko/, [st̪ul̪ˈt̪iːfiko]

Verb

stultificō (present infinitive stultificāre, perfect active stultificāvī, supine stultificātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive, Late Latin or Medieval Latin) to make stupid or foolish
   • c. 390, Origen, translated by Hieronymus, Translatio Homiliarum in Ieremiam et Ezechielem, Homily 5, sections 800-802:

     Vērum exemplum interpōnāmus, ut perspicuē possit intelligī quōmodō fatuum Deī stultam fēcerit sapientiam mundī: fingam paulisper mē, quī aliquid putor nōsse, cum īnsipiente aliquō, et inērudītō cōnferre sermōnem, quī nihil intelligat, nihil acūtae disputātiōnis interroget. Numquidnam opus mihi est ad illius stultitiam arguendam, dialecticam calliditātem, et profundōrum sēnsuum acūmen adhibēre? Nōnne ad ūnīus sermunculī jactum vīlis et modicī, quī tamen illius intelligentiae videātur ācerrimus, fatuum eum et īnsipientem esse convincam? Sīc igitur ad mundī sapientiam stultificandam nōn est opus sapientiam Deī dēscendere, et cum eā colluctārī, quae deorsum est sapientia, sed sufficit fatuum Deī: quoniam fatuum Deī sapientius est hominibus[...]

     Truly, let us give an example, so that it can clearly be understood how the foolishness of God can make the wisdom of the world stupid: let me for a short time make myself, who am thought to know something, have a conversation with someone unwise and uneducated, who can understand nothing [and] can make no clever argument. Is there any need for me, in order to refute his stupidity, to use logical cleverness and the subtlety of profound ideas? At the utterance of one trivial and ordinary little statement, which would still seem very penetrating to his understanding, wouldn't I prove that he is foolish and unwise? Thus, therefore, in order to make the world's wisdom stupid, there is no need for the wisdom of God to come down and wrestle with it, which is an inferior wisdom, but rather, the foolishness of God suffices; after all, the foolishness of God is more wise than humans[...]

Conjugation

Conjugation of stultificō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	stultificō	stultificās	stultificat	stultificāmus	stultificātis	stultificant
	imperfect	stultificābam	stultificābās	stultificābat	stultificābāmus	stultificābātis	stultificābant
	future	stultificābō	stultificābis	stultificābit	stultificābimus	stultificābitis	stultificābunt
	perfect	stultificāvī	stultificāvistī	stultificāvit	stultificāvimus	stultificāvistis	stultificāvērunt, stultificāvēre
	pluperfect	stultificāveram	stultificāverās	stultificāverat	stultificāverāmus	stultificāverātis	stultificāverant
	future perfect	stultificāverō	stultificāveris	stultificāverit	stultificāverimus	stultificāveritis	stultificāverint
passive	present	stultificor	stultificāris, stultificāre	stultificātur	stultificāmur	stultificāminī	stultificantur
	imperfect	stultificābar	stultificābāris, stultificābāre	stultificābātur	stultificābāmur	stultificābāminī	stultificābantur
	future	stultificābor	stultificāberis, stultificābere	stultificābitur	stultificābimur	stultificābiminī	stultificābuntur
	perfect	stultificātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	stultificātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	stultificātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	stultificem	stultificēs	stultificet	stultificēmus	stultificētis	stultificent
	imperfect	stultificārem	stultificārēs	stultificāret	stultificārēmus	stultificārētis	stultificārent
	perfect	stultificāverim	stultificāverīs	stultificāverit	stultificāverīmus	stultificāverītis	stultificāverint
	pluperfect	stultificāvissem	stultificāvissēs	stultificāvisset	stultificāvissēmus	stultificāvissētis	stultificāvissent
passive	present	stultificer	stultificēris, stultificēre	stultificētur	stultificēmur	stultificēminī	stultificentur
	imperfect	stultificārer	stultificārēris, stultificārēre	stultificārētur	stultificārēmur	stultificārēminī	stultificārentur
	perfect	stultificātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	stultificātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	stultificā	—	—	stultificāte	—
	future	—	stultificātō	stultificātō	—	stultificātōte	stultificantō
passive	present	—	stultificāre	—	—	stultificāminī	—
	future	—	stultificātor	stultificātor	—	—	stultificantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		stultificāre	stultificāvisse	stultificātūrum esse	stultificārī	stultificātum esse	stultificātum īrī
participles		stultificāns	—	stultificātūrus	—	stultificātus	stultificandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		stultificandī	stultificandō	stultificandum	stultificandō	stultificātum	stultificātū

Further reading

• “stultifico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stultifico - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.