stoic

See also: Stoic, Stoïc, and stoïc

English

Alternative forms

• Stoic
• Stoick, stoick, Stoïc, Stoïck, stoïc, stoïck (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstəʊɪk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstoʊɪk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɪk
• Hyphenation: sto‧ic

Noun

stoic (plural stoics)

1. (philosophy) Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.

2. A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
   • 1959 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The German Federal Railway today: 1.—Impressions of a week-end visit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 379:

     Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.

Translations

proponent of a school of thought

• Afrikaans: stoïsyn
• Arabic: رِوَاقِيّ (riwāqiyy)
• Belarusian: стоік m (stóik)
• Catalan: estoic (ca) m
• French: stoïcien (fr) m
• German: Stoiker (de) m
• Greek: στωικός (el) m (stoïkós)

  Ancient: Στωϊκός m (Stōïkós)

• Hungarian: sztoikus (hu)
• Italian: stoico (it) m, stoica (it) f
• Korean: 스토아 (seutoa)
• Persian: رواقی (fa) (revâqi)
• Portuguese: estoico (pt) m
• Russian: сто́ик (ru) m (stóik)
• Spanish: estoico (es) m

a person indifferent to pleasure or pain

• Afrikaans: stoïsyn
• Belarusian: стоік m (stóik)
• Catalan: estoic (ca) m, estoica (ca) f
• Finnish: stoalainen (fi)
• French: stoïque (fr)
• German: Stoiker (de) m
• Greek: στωικός (el) m (stoïkós)
• Hungarian: sztoikus (hu)
• Korean: 냉철 (ko) (naengcheol)
• Maori: whakarongo uka (refers to pain only)
• Russian: сто́ик (ru) m (stóik)
• Spanish: estoico (es) m, estoica (es) f
• Tagalog: manhid
• Turkish: stoacı (tr)

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• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} stoik m, ^{(please verify)} stoička f

Adjective

stoic (comparative more stoic, superlative most stoic)

1. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
2. Not affected by pain or distress.

   Synonyms: apathetic, impassive, stoical

3. Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.

   Synonyms: expressionless, impassive

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

Translations

of or relating to the Stoics

• Afrikaans: stoïes
• Arabic: رِوَاقِيّ (riwāqiyy)
• Belarusian: стаічны (staičny)
• Catalan: estoic (ca)
• Dutch: stoïsch (nl)
• Esperanto: stoika (eo)
• Finnish: stoalainen (fi)
• German: stoisch (de)
• Greek: στωικός (el) m (stoïkós)
• Hungarian: sztoikus (hu)
• Italian: stoico (it)
• Korean: 스토아적 (seutoajeok)
• Persian: رواقی (fa) (revâqi)
• Russian: стои́ческий (ru) (stoíčeskij)
• Spanish: estoico (es)

not affected by pain or distress

• Afrikaans: stoïes
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• Arabic: جَلِد (jalid), رَزِين (ar) (razīn)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: стаічны (staičny)
• Catalan: estoic (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: stoický
• Dutch: stoïcijns (nl)
• Esperanto: stoika (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• French: stoïque (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: stoisch (de)
• Greek: στωικός (el) m (stoïkós)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: stoico (it)
• Korean: 냉철한 (naengcheolhan), 금욕적인 (geumyokjeogin)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stoisk

  Nynorsk: stoisk

• Polish: stoicki
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: стои́ческий (ru) (stoíčeskij)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: estoico (es)
• Tagalog: manhid
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain

• Afrikaans: stoïes
• Arabic: جَلِد (jalid), رَزِين (ar) (razīn)
• Bokmål: stoisk
• Dutch: stoïcijns (nl)
• Esperanto: stoika (eo)
• German: stoisch (de)
• Greek: στωικός (el) m (stoïkós)
• Hungarian: sztoikus (hu), szenvedélymentes (hu)
• Italian: stoico (it)
• Norwegian:
• Nynorsk: stoisk
• Russian: стои́ческий (ru) (stoíčeskij)
• Tagalog: manhid

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• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} stoický
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} stoisk (sv)

Related terms

• stoical
• stoically
• stoicism

 

References

• “stoic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Coits, Ostic, Sciot, Ticos, coits

Irish

Alternative forms

• stuic (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˠt̪ˠɪc/

Noun

stoic

1. inflection of stoc:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French stoïque, from Latin stoicus.

Adjective

stoic m or n (feminine singular stoică, masculine plural stoici, feminine and neuter plural stoice)

1. stoic

Declension

Declension of stoic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	stoic		stoică	stoici	stoice
	definite	stoicul		stoica	stoicii	stoicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	stoic		stoice	stoici	stoice
	definite	stoicului		stoicei	stoicilor	stoicelor