sopor

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See also: söpör

English

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor (“sleep”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sopor (plural sopors)

  1. (medicine) An unnaturally deep sleep.

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sopōrem.

Pronunciation

Noun

sopor m or f (plural sopors)

  1. a deep sleep
  2. (figurative) drowsiness, sluggishness
    Synonyms: somnolència, ensopiment
  3. (pathology) sopor

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

sopor m (genitive sopōris); third declension

  1. A deep sleep, sopor; sleep (in general); catalepsy.
    Synonym: somnus
  2. The sleep of death; death.
    Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, exitus, perniciēs, fīnis, somnus
  3. (figuratively) Stupefaction; lethargy, stupor; drowsiness
  4. (figuratively) Laziness, indifference.
  5. (figuratively) Opium.
  6. (figuratively) A sleeping potion or draught; opiate.
  7. (figuratively) The temple (of the head).

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sopor sopōrēs
Genitive sopōris sopōrum
Dative sopōrī sopōribus
Accusative sopōrem sopōrēs
Ablative sopōre sopōribus
Vocative sopor sopōrēs

Derived terms

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

Borrowed from French sopor, from Latin sopor.

Noun

sopor n (uncountable)

  1. sopor

Declension

declension of sopor (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) sopor soporul
genitive/dative (unui) sopor soporului
vocative soporule

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sopor m (plural sopores)

  1. stupor, drowsiness, sluggishness
    Synonym: estupor

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

sopor

  1. indefinite plural of sopa
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