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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
Stōicidae m pl (genitive Stōicidārum); first declension
- pretenders in Stoicism, would-be Stoics
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Further reading
- “Stōĭcĭda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press: “Stōĭcĭda, ae, m. Stoicus, / I. a nickname of a voluptuary who gave himself out for a Stoic, Juv. 2, 65.”
- “Stōicidae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers: “Stōicidae (ārum), m / Stoicus, sons of Stoics, would-be Stoics, Iu.”
- Stōĭcĭda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1481/1: “Stōĭcĭda, æ, m., disciple des Stoïciens : Juv. 2, 65.”