stupor

English

Alternative forms

• stupour (obsolete)

Etymology

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Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”), from stupeō (“I am stunned, I am numb”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-. Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstjuːpə(ɹ)/, /ˈstʃuːpə(ɹ)/, /ˈstuːpə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Noun

stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)

1. A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.
2. A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.

Related terms

• stupefy
• stupefaction
• stupendous
• stupid

Translations

a state of reduced consciousness or sensibility

• Belarusian: сту́пар m (stúpar)
• Bulgarian: сту́пор m (stúpor)
• Dutch: verdwazing, verbijstering (nl)
• Finnish: tokkura (fi), pökkyrä
• German: Sopor, Topor
• Greek: νάρκη (el) f (nárki), λήθαργος (el) m (líthargos)
• Hungarian: kábulat (hu), bódulat (hu), részegség (hu)
• Icelandic: sljóleiki m, hálfmeðvitundarleysi n
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• Maori: pāhoahoa
• Portuguese: estupor (pt) m
• Russian: сту́пор (ru) m (stúpor), оцепене́ние (ru) n (ocepenénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: ступор m, stupor (sh) m
• Spanish: estupor (es) m
• Swedish: stupor (sv), dvala (sv) c
• Ukrainian: сту́пор m (stúpor)
• Urdu: غشی (ġuśī)

a state of confusion where one has difficulties in thinking

• Maori: mate pāhoahoa
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Verb

stupor (third-person singular simple present stupors, present participle stuporing, simple past and past participle stupored)

1. (transitive) To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

Anagrams

• Portus, Proust, Sprout, Stroup, Troups, sprout

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Latin

Etymology

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From stupeō +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.por/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊpɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.por/, [ˈst̪uːpor]

Noun

stupor m (genitive stupōris); third declension

1. numbness, torpor
2. stupefaction
3. stupidity
4. wonder

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stupor	stupōrēs
Genitive	stupōris	stupōrum
Dative	stupōrī	stupōribus
Accusative	stupōrem	stupōrēs
Ablative	stupōre	stupōribus
Vocative	stupor	stupōrēs

Descendants

• → English: stupor
• → French: stupeur
• → Italian: stupore
• → Russian: ступор (stupor)

References

• “stupor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stupor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stupor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stupor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Swedish

Noun

stupor

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of stupa

Anagrams

• utrops