More specifically, is there a Latin word which expresses a level of stupidity so monumental that it’s epic?
While we wait for the Latin scholars to get here I’d like to offer the following:
Stultus est sicut stultus facit which means stupid is as stupid does.
And now the real reason for this post. While looking around for a phrase meaning epically stupid I came across this gem hiding among an impressive pile of classically looking phrases:
Furnulum pani nolo which seems to translate as I don’t want a toaster.
I’d always seen “stultus est ut stultus agit”, but I’m not a Latin scholar.
MINGING SUM NE
In the UK’s current Celebrity Big Brother, this is the motto on a crest stuck to one of the doors; it refers to one of the contestants, who became a celebrity due to her appearance in a “normal” Big Brother season, and famously asked “Am I minging?” (minging = English slang for ugly, itself derived from a slang word for rotten/stinky.)
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English- Latin
stupid- plumbeus, bardus
imbecilis (origin of imbecil) meant “someone lacking the ability to reason; someone too stupid to decide for himself”. Children, the dement and women were considered imbecile.
Does" politician " count ?I’m sure the word has latin origins.
I’d go with stupiditas aere perennius, literally, ‘stupidity more lasting than bronze’ which has the added advantage of being an allusion to a well-known poem of Horace, Ode III.30, in which he refers to his poetry as a ‘monumentum aere perennius’.
Ah! Forrest Gump in Latin! How do you say, “And that’s all I have to say about that”?
Or:
“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”.
How about people who forget to inflect their adjectives?
Bardus Advoco
But obviously, this Forrest Gump quote is just plain wrong!
There are patterns on the top of chocolates indicating what kind each one is. I even remember reading an article from Cecil on these patterns about 20 years ago.
Schottenheimer.
No, wait. That’s German.
Quale?
Qualee?
Can’t remember about the last “e”
“Stultus” would take the comparative “stultior” and the superlative “stultissimus”. It’s the root word for the English “stultifying”.
Sorry?