stultorum

Stultorum is the genitive plural form of the Latin adjective-stem noun stultus, meaning "foolish" or, when used as a noun, "a fool." As genitive plural, stultorum translates as "of fools" and is used to indicate possession or attribution in Latin phrases. The form follows the regular pattern for adjectives of the 2-1-2 declension, with masculine and neuter genitive plural ending in -orum and feminine in -arum.

Grammatical role and usage: In Classical Latin, stultus can function as a substantive meaning “a fool.” When in the genitive plural, stultorum typically modifies another noun in the genitive to express possession or association, as in phrases such as quaestiones stultorum (“the questions of fools”) or opiniones stultorum (“the opinions of fools”). The phrase does not constitute a fixed title or proper name, but rather a generic descriptive form.

Etymology and related terms: The word derives from Latin stultus, meaning foolish. Related terms include stultitia, the abstract noun for stupidity, and other compounds built from the same root. The genitive plural stultorum is a standard inflectional form rather than a standalone lexical item.

Usage context: Stultorum appears primarily in Latin texts when describing attributes or possessions of fools, or in linguistic and rhetorical discussions about adjectives used substantively. It is not typically a standalone term with a fixed modern usage beyond grammatical illustration.

See also: Stultus, Stultitia, Latin grammar of adjectives used as nouns, Genitive case in Latin.