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Dutch
Etymology
Perhaps borrowed from Middle French stoique, German stoisch or Latin stoicus. Equivalent to stoa + -isch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstoː.is/
- Hyphenation: sto‧isch
Adjective
stoïsch (comparative stoïscher, superlative meest stoïsch)
- stoic, pertaining to stoicism
- 1992, Fokke Veenstra, in Fokke Veenstra (ed.), Hendrik Laurensz. Spiegel, Hert-spiegel, page 200.
Overigens was de vermenging van christendom en stoïsche principes een algemene trend, wel allereerst bij filosofisch georiënteerde christenen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1998, Joris van Eijnatten, Hogere sferen. De ideeënwereld van Willem Bilderdijk (1756-1831), page 247:Een telkens terugkerend element in het denken van Bilderdijk - we hebben er reeds op gewezen – is zijn verwerping van stoïsche opvattingen, die hij verbindt met pelagiaanse tendenzen in het achttiende-eeuwse denken.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: stoïcijns
- (less common) stoic, unaffected by pain or emotion, unemotional
- Synonym: stoïcijns
Declension