stupor

• stupour (obsolete)

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

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

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• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

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.

• stupefy
• stupefaction
• stupendous
• stupid

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.

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

From stupeō +‎ -or.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.por/, [ˈstʊ.pɔr]

stupor m (genitive stupōris); third declension

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

Third declension.

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

• 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, 1883–1887)
• stupor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

stupor

1. indefinite plural of stupa