Etymograph

English

stimulus

Stimulus comes from Latin stimulus ‘goad, prick’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstimulus‘goad, prick’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1789stimulus

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstimulus‘goad, prick’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1789stimulus

Earliest quotation: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants: “Many plants, like many animals, are furnished with arms…”

Every English word from Latin stimulus

Today it means

noun An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.

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