sopor

See also: sopór and söpör

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor (“sleep”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊpə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊpɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)

Noun

sopor (plural sopors)

1. (medicine) An unnaturally deep sleep.

Translations

unnaturally deep sleep

• Bulgarian: тежък сън m (težăk săn)
• German: Sopor (de) m
• Romanian: sopor (ro) n

Anagrams

• Spoor, proso, roops, spoor, sporo-

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sopōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [suˈpur]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [soˈpor]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈpor]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

sopor m or f (plural sopors)

1. a deep sleep
2. (figurative) drowsiness, sluggishness

   Synonyms: somnolència, ensopiment

3. (pathology) sopor

Derived terms

• soporós

Related terms

• soporífer
• soporífic

Further reading

• “sopor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swep-

Proto-Italic *swepōs

Latin sopor

Inherited from Proto-Italic *swepōs, from Proto-Indo-European *swep-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.pɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.por]

Noun

sopor m (genitive sopōris); third declension

1. a deep sleep, sopor; sleep (in general), slumber; catalepsy

   Synonym: somnus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.522–523:

     Nox erat, et placidum carpēbant fessa sopōrem / corpora per terrās [...].

     It was night, and weary bodies were enjoying peaceful deep sleep throughout the lands [...].

2. (figuratively):
   1. the sleep of death; death

      Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, exitus, perniciēs, fīnis, somnus

   2. stupefaction; lethargy, stupor; drowsiness
   3. laziness, indifference
   4. opium
   5. a sleeping potion or draught; opiate
   6. the temple (of the head)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sopor	sopōrēs
genitive	sopōris	sopōrum
dative	sopōrī	sopōribus
accusative	sopōrem	sopōrēs
ablative	sopōre	sopōribus
vocative	sopor	sopōrēs

Derived terms

• sopōrātiō
• sopōrifer
• sopōrō
• sopōrus

Related terms

• sōpiō
• sopōrātus

Descendants

• → Catalan: sopor (learned)
• → English: sopor (learned)
• → German: Sopor (learned)
• → Italian: sopore (learned)
• → Portuguese: sopor (learned)
• → Spanish: sopor (learned)

Further reading

• “sopor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sopor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sopor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swep-

Proto-Italic *swepōs

Latin sopor

French soporbor.

Romanian sopor

Borrowed from French sopor, from Latin sopor.

Noun

sopor n (uncountable)

1. sopor

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sopor	soporul
genitive-dative	sopor	soporului
vocative	soporule

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swep-

Proto-Italic *swepōs

Latin soporlbor.

Spanish sopor

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈpoɾ/ [soˈpoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: so‧por

Noun

sopor m (plural sopores)

1. stupor, drowsiness, sluggishness

   Synonym: estupor

Further reading

• “sopor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

sopor

1. indefinite plural of sopa