Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
Proto-Germanic *stikanąder.
Proto-Germanic *stukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *stokk
Old English stocc
Middle English stok
English stock
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
stock items
stock sizes
(not-comparable, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
(not-comparable) Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
es muy básico (ordinary, very basic) · es en almacén (normally available for purchase) · mk вооби́чаен (ordinary, very basic) · el στερεότυπος (ordinary, very basic) · nl voorradige (normally available for purchase) · pt de série (having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car) · de vorrätig (normally available for purchase) · mk о́бичен (ordinary, very basic) · fi varasto- (normally available for purchase) · nl vooradig (normally available for purchase) · el διαθέσιμος (normally available for purchase) · es serial (normally available for purchase) · sv stereotyp (ordinary, very basic) · es de fábrica (having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car) · nl in voorraad (normally available for purchase) · de verfügbar (normally available for purchase) · el ετοιμοπαράδοτος (normally available for purchase) · es de serie (having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car) · nl op stock (normally available for purchase) · es disponible (normally available for purchase)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
Proto-Germanic *stikanąder.
Proto-Germanic *stukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *stokk
Old English stocc
Middle English stok
English stock
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) A store or supply.
(countable, qualifier:operations, uncountable) A store or supply. ▸ A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
We have a stock of televisions on hand.
(countable, uncountable) A store or supply. ▸ A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
(countable, uncountable) A store or supply. ▸ Railroad rolling stock.
The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
(countable, in a card game, uncountable) A store or supply. ▸ A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
(countable, uncountable) A store or supply. ▸ Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.
[…] the open land is generally covered by a grass which grows in tussacs, and produces tufts of hard, crisp, pointed blades. Stock will never willingly eat this grass; […] 1881, William Rowntrie Robertson, Reports on the Agricultural Conditions, Capabilities, and Prospects Of The Neilgherry And Coimbatore Districts, page 33:
(countable, uncountable) A store or supply. ▸ The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
(countable, uncountable) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
(countable, uncountable) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. ▸ The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
(US, countable, especially, uncountable) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. ▸ A share in a company.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. ▸ The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. 2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
(countable, uncountable) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder. ▸ Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
(countable, uncountable) The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. ▸ Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.
(countable, uncountable) The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. ▸ The type of paper used in printing.
The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock. ▸ Ellipsis of film stock.
(countable, uncountable) The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 14:8–9:
(countable, uncountable) The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. ▸ The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
The cion overruleth the stock quite. 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
(broadly, countable, uncountable) The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. ▸ Lineage; family; ancestry.
UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe,
Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke,
That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […] 2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108:
His hatred is not based upon whom these people are (like many rightwing Republicans, Gallo comes from immigrant stock), but how easily these people have come by success in America. 2003 November 14, Jacques Peretti, “You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent”, in The Guardian:
(broadly, countable, uncountable) The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches. ▸ Lineage; family; ancestry. ▸ A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
(countable, uncountable) Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
(countable, uncountable) A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached. ▸ The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs. 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:
(countable, uncountable) A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached. ▸ The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
(countable, uncountable) Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place. ▸ The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
(countable, uncountable) Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place. ▸ The tailstock of a lathe.
(countable, uncountable) A bar, stick, or rod. ▸ A ski pole.
(countable, uncountable) A bar, stick, or rod. ▸ A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up. 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:
(countable, uncountable) A bar, stick, or rod. ▸ The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
(countable, uncountable) A bar, stick, or rod. ▸ A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
(countable, uncountable) A type of (now formal or official) neckwear. ▸ A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 417:
He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century. 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 116”, in Of Human Bondage:
(countable, uncountable) A type of (now formal or official) neckwear. ▸ A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
(countable, uncountable) A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
(countable, uncountable) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
(countable, uncountable) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick. 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:
When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones, 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XV. On the late Massacher in Piemont.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 58:
(broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks. c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
(UK, countable, historical, uncountable) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
(countable, in-plural, uncountable) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
(UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
(countable, uncountable) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
(countable, uncountable) The beater of a fulling mill.
[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel. 1842, Jam Bischoff, A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures:
ja 株式 (finance: capital raised by a company) · lv prece (store of goods for sale) · fa قنداق (part of gun — see also butt) · sv lövkoja (genus Matthiola of flowers) · yi אַקציע (finance: capital raised by a company) · it partita (supply of anything ready for use) · it stock (supply of anything ready for use) · sv talong (stack of undealt game cards) · mi wairenga (broth) · scn mazzu (stack of undealt game cards) · mk врато́врска (necktie) · ota قونداق (part of gun — see also butt) · ru левко́й (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ru це́нная бума́га (finance: capital raised by a company) · cs pažba (part of gun — see also butt) · scn armentu (farm animals) · it partita (store of goods for sale) · bg прикла́д (part of gun — see also butt) · uk запа́си (supply of anything ready for use) · rup cundáchie (part of gun — see also butt) · bg наличност (store of goods for sale) · pt gravata (necktie) · sk fiala (genus Matthiola of flowers) · fr violier (genus Matthiola of flowers) · scn cravatta (necktie) · pl kolba (part of gun — see also butt) · de Fond (broth) · it tallone (stack of undealt game cards) · sh шѐбој (genus Matthiola of flowers) · fi tukki (bar through an anchor) · fi peräsinakseli (rudder stock) · tr şebboy (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ota ذخیره (store of goods for sale) · ro condac (part of gun — see also butt) · sq kondak (part of gun — see also butt) · ar قَنْدَاق (part of gun — see also butt) · tt мал-туар (farm animals) · nl aandeel (finance: capital raised by a company) · sk akcia (finance: capital raised by a company) · be запа́сы (supply of anything ready for use) · el μάνα (stack of undealt game cards) · nl voorraad (supply of anything ready for use) · ta தொகை (supply of anything ready for use) · fi varasto (supply of anything ready for use) · sv boskap (farm animals) · nb lager (supply of anything ready for use) · fr bouillon (broth) · de Lager (store of goods for sale) · scn riserba (supply of anything ready for use) · ota ذخیره (supply of anything ready for use) · eo stoko (supply of anything ready for use) · ga stoc (broth) · pt estoque (store of goods for sale) · sv buljong (broth) · it quantitativo (store of goods for sale) · tt шәббуй (part of gun — see also butt) · tt акция (finance: capital raised by a company) · de Fundus (supply of anything ready for use) · nb aksje (finance: capital raised by a company) · sv förråd (supply of anything ready for use) · ru запа́сы (supply of anything ready for use) · hu viola (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ru бульо́н (broth) · ary صاري الدمان (rudder stock) · it giacenza (store of goods for sale) · fr giroflée quarantaine (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ca estoc (store of goods for sale) · scn azziuni (finance: capital raised by a company) · sv aktie (finance: capital raised by a company) · el χαρτόνι (type of paper) · sk pažba (part of gun — see also butt) · el απόθεμα (store of goods for sale) · bg запас (store of goods for sale) · pdt Väarot (supply of anything ready for use) · gl caldo (broth) · be інвента́р (supply of anything ready for use) · ru прикла́д (part of gun — see also butt) · pt ação (finance: capital raised by a company) · de Handlager (supply of anything ready for use) · ka ლევკოიონი (genus Matthiola of flowers) · tt инвентарь (supply of anything ready for use) · ru ассортиме́нт (store of goods for sale) · la prōsāpia (lineage, ancestry) · ar سَهْم (finance: capital raised by a company) · sh ку̀ндак (part of gun — see also butt) · az ehtiyat (supply of anything ready for use) · tr kundak (part of gun — see also butt) · el ζωμός (broth) · it armento (farm animals) · ja 備蓄 (supply of anything ready for use) · hu estike (genus Matthiola of flowers) · nl voorraad (store of goods for sale) · hi स्टाक (finance: capital raised by a company) · pt caldo (broth) · de Vorrat (store of goods for sale) · nn aksje (finance: capital raised by a company) · tt кыйммәтле кәгазь (finance: capital raised by a company) · ru га́лстук (necktie) · mk до́биток (farm animals) · nb levkøy (genus Matthiola of flowers) · fi karja (farm animals) · es acciones (finance: capital raised by a company) · pl lewkonia (genus Matthiola of flowers) · nl violet (genus Matthiola of flowers) · vi cổ phiếu (finance: capital raised by a company) · fr matthiole (genus Matthiola of flowers) · it lotto (store of goods for sale) · es stock (store of goods for sale) · es existencias (store of goods for sale) · pt coronha (part of gun — see also butt) · fi tukki (part of gun — see also butt) · tt шөббуй (part of gun — see also butt) · hu árukészlet (store of goods for sale) · de Vorratsstapel (stack of undealt game cards) · ang stocc (store of goods for sale) · sl delnica (finance: capital raised by a company) · hu jószág (farm animals) · mk ло́за (lineage, ancestry) · sk zásoba (supply of anything ready for use) · ms saham (finance: capital raised by a company) · hu haszonállat (farm animals) · de Gewehrkolben (part of gun — see also butt) · scn lottu (store of goods for sale) · bg конда́к (part of gun — see also butt) · ru фо́нды (finance: capital raised by a company) · hi स्टॉक (finance: capital raised by a company) · hu készlet (store of goods for sale) · mk крава́та (necktie) · az mixəkgülü (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ru ба́ллер (rudder stock) · fr jas (bar through an anchor) · hu erőleves-sűrítmény (broth) · de Aktie (finance: capital raised by a company) · id saham (finance: capital raised by a company) · tt нәсел (lineage, ancestry) · scn stirpi (lineage, ancestry) · tt запас (supply of anything ready for use) · hu puskatus (part of gun — see also butt) · th สต็อก (finance: capital raised by a company) · tr soy (lineage, ancestry) · fa چلیپای (genus Matthiola of flowers) · mk шебој (genus Matthiola of flowers) · sk zásoba (store of goods for sale) · ja 在庫 (store of goods for sale) · sv fänad (farm animals) · gd sabhs (broth) · ba һурпа (broth) · mi tāka (store of goods for sale) · el μετοχή (finance: capital raised by a company) · mk ку́ндак (part of gun — see also butt) · taa dink'a katwtl (part of gun — see also butt) · fi leukoija (genus Matthiola of flowers) · cmn 股票 (finance: capital raised by a company) · tl mulanan (farm animals) · ru мясно́й отва́р (broth) · ru а́кция (finance: capital raised by a company) · cs zásoba (store of goods for sale) · hu készlet (supply of anything ready for use) · hu raktár (store of goods for sale) · tt шеббуй (part of gun — see also butt) · nl violier (genus Matthiola of flowers) · hu származás (lineage, ancestry) · scn scorta (store of goods for sale) · nn lager (supply of anything ready for use) · da levkøj (genus Matthiola of flowers) · nl stock (store of goods for sale) · fr pioche (stack of undealt game cards) · hu állomány (supply of anything ready for use) · bg наличност (supply of anything ready for use) · ro acțiune (finance: capital raised by a company) · uk інвента́р (store of goods for sale) · vo matiol (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ja 株 (finance: capital raised by a company) · pl bulion (broth) · ar جَرْد (store of goods for sale) · tt гаилә (lineage, ancestry) · cmn 存货 (store of goods for sale) · la stirps (lineage, ancestry) · ko 비축 (supply of anything ready for use) · tr zahire (supply of anything ready for use) · ca estirp (lineage, ancestry) · nl vee (farm animals) · el κοντάκι (part of gun — see also butt) · fi varasto (store of goods for sale) · sl šebọ̑j (genus Matthiola of flowers) · sl živina (farm animals) · hu talon (stack of undealt game cards) · ru коло́да (stack of undealt game cards) · hu raktárkészlet (store of goods for sale) · ar مَنْثُور (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ar خَزِين (store of goods for sale) · it cravatta (necktie) · az şəbbugülü (genus Matthiola of flowers) · fi osakepääoma (finance: capital raised by a company) · mk сто́ка (farm animals) · fr crosse (part of gun — see also butt) · es inventario (store of goods for sale) · ko 주식 (finance: capital raised by a company) · de Abkunft (lineage, ancestry) · sv lager (supply of anything ready for use) · tt галстук (necktie) · mk по́текло (lineage, ancestry) · scn famigghia (lineage, ancestry) · lv laide (part of gun — see also butt) · cs fiala (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ky кундак (part of gun — see also butt) · de Levkoje (genus Matthiola of flowers) · es consomé (broth) · sv lager (store of goods for sale) · it azione (finance: capital raised by a company) · he מַנְתּוּר (genus Matthiola of flowers) · vi báng (part of gun — see also butt) · ota نسل (lineage, ancestry) · it stirpe (lineage, ancestry) · nn kolbe (part of gun — see also butt) · de Vorratslager (store of goods for sale) · hsb lewkonja (genus Matthiola of flowers) · de Vieh (farm animals) · fi liemi (broth) · ta தொகை (farm animals) · el ζωντανά (farm animals) · el στοκ (store of goods for sale) · nn lager (store of goods for sale) · uk запа́си (store of goods for sale) · de Viehbestand (farm animals) · cmn 庫存 /库存 (store of goods for sale) · sl levkọ̑ja (genus Matthiola of flowers) · sk vývar (broth) · tt терлек (farm animals) · ru скот (farm animals) · it riserva (supply of anything ready for use) · mk ре́зерва (supply of anything ready for use) · es ganado (farm animals) · hy շահպրակ (genus Matthiola of flowers) · uk коло́да (stack of undealt game cards) · ca caldo (broth) · sh kùndak (part of gun — see also butt) · pt estirpe (lineage, ancestry) · be кало́да (stack of undealt game cards) · ba мал-тыуар (farm animals) · ru инвента́рь (store of goods for sale) · ru шток (bar through an anchor) · pl halsztuk (necktie) · de Kolben (part of gun — see also butt) · fr giroflée des jardins (genus Matthiola of flowers) · scn brodu (broth) · it mazzo (stack of undealt game cards) · kk жұлдызшешек (genus Matthiola of flowers) · tt шулпа (broth) · ko 가축 (farm animals) · tt колода (stack of undealt game cards) · pl sortyment (store of goods for sale) · ota ذریت (lineage, ancestry) · scn armali (farm animals) · ba мал (farm animals) · az sədbər (genus Matthiola of flowers) · bg шибо́й (genus Matthiola of flowers) · el ζώα (farm animals) · pt reserva (supply of anything ready for use) · fr souche (the longest part of a split tally stick) · nl reserve (supply of anything ready for use) · ta தொகை (finance: capital raised by a company) · cs akcie (finance: capital raised by a company) · tk lewkoý (genus Matthiola of flowers) · cmn 家畜 (farm animals) · fr action (finance: capital raised by a company) · hu tus (part of gun — see also butt) · yue 股市 (finance: capital raised by a company) · it violacciocca (genus Matthiola of flowers) · fr stock (store of goods for sale) · es reserva (supply of anything ready for use) · he מְנָיָה (finance: capital raised by a company) · uk інвента́р (supply of anything ready for use) · es estocaje (store of goods for sale) · cs zásoba (supply of anything ready for use) · mk шпил (stack of undealt game cards) · it approvvigionamento (store of goods for sale) · mk сто́ка (store of goods for sale) · tl sapi (finance: capital raised by a company) · ko 재고 (store of goods for sale) · az tədarük (supply of anything ready for use) · ar مَرَقَة (broth) · fr réserve (supply of anything ready for use) · nl kolf (part of gun — see also butt) · tt ассортимент (store of goods for sale) · nb kolbe (part of gun — see also butt) · sk zdroj (supply of anything ready for use) · es estirpe (lineage, ancestry) · yi בוליאָן (broth) · scn bàlicu (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ru инвента́рь (supply of anything ready for use) · pl asortyment (store of goods for sale) · sv spad (broth) · eo akcio (finance: capital raised by a company) · uk левко́й (genus Matthiola of flowers) · goh stoc (store of goods for sale) · be запа́сы (store of goods for sale) · mk булјо́н (broth) · mk а́кција (finance: capital raised by a company) · ba акция (finance: capital raised by a company) · sk bujón (broth) · vo hitüpamatiol (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ru поголо́вье (farm animals) · ar حَسَاء (broth) · ar مَخْزُون (supply of anything ready for use) · pt gado (farm animals) · scn zuccu (the longest part of a split tally stick) · sk dobytok (farm animals) · fa شببوی (genus Matthiola of flowers) · it bestiame (farm animals) · es acción (finance: capital raised by a company) · fi paperilaatu (type of paper) · fr bétail (farm animals) · sh šèboj (genus Matthiola of flowers) · ro patul puștii (part of gun — see also butt) · de Papiersorte (type of paper) · es alelí (genus Matthiola of flowers) · it affusto (part of gun — see also butt) · sv kolv (part of gun — see also butt) · ota صوی (lineage, ancestry) · de Abstammung (lineage, ancestry) · be інвента́р (store of goods for sale) · he מְלַאי (store of goods for sale) · nn levkøy (genus Matthiola of flowers) · scn quantitativu (store of goods for sale) · io acioni (finance: capital raised by a company) · lb Aktie (finance: capital raised by a company) · alt кындак (part of gun — see also butt) · uk а́кція (finance: capital raised by a company) · th สต็อก (store of goods for sale) · es caldo (broth) · de Vorrat (supply of anything ready for use) · scn tìtulu azziunariu (finance: capital raised by a company) · de Bouillon (broth) · hu húslevessűrítmény (broth) · nb lager (store of goods for sale) · mi raparapa (part of gun — see also butt) · de Kapitalstock (finance: capital raised by a company) · ru запа́с (store of goods for sale) · hu részvény (finance: capital raised by a company) · de Brühe (broth) · hu leveskocka (broth) · sk statok (farm animals) · ca brou (broth) · dsb lewkoja (genus Matthiola of flowers) · hu eredet (lineage, ancestry) · fi pakka (stack of undealt game cards) · ru ста́пель (rudder stock)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
Proto-Germanic *stikanąder.
Proto-Germanic *stukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *stokk
Old English stocc
Middle English stok
English stock
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”).
Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
Meanings
To have on hand for sale.
...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp. 2005, William Froug, How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island:
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments. 1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:
to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
to stock a warehouse with goods
to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
To put in the stocks as punishment.
Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'd c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
(dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
es almacenar (to provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply) · nl op stock houden (have on hand for sale) · fi pitää varastossa (have on hand for sale) · es estocar (to provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply) · el διαθέτω (have on hand for sale) · es vender (have on hand for sale) · es aprovisionarse (have on hand for sale) · es abastecerse (have on hand for sale) · sv lagra (have on hand for sale) · es tener (have on hand for sale) · nl voorradig zijn (have on hand for sale) · nl in stock hebben (have on hand for sale) · es abastarse (have on hand for sale)