stupor

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English

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Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin stupor (“insensibility, numbness, dullness”). Distantly related (from Proto-Indo-European, via Proto-Germanic) to stint, stub, and steep.

Pronunciation

Noun

stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)

  1. A state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; (particularly medicine) a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness.
  2. A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
    Synonym: daze

Translations

Verb

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

  1. To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

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Latin

Etymology

From stupeō (“to be struck senseless, be stunned, be astonished”) +‎ -or (nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

stupor m (genitive stupōris); third declension

  1. Numbness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement.
    Synonym: torpor
  2. (especially) Dullness, stupidity, stolidity.
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Inflection

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative stupor stupōrēs
genitive stupōris stupōrum
dative stupōrī stupōribus
accusative stupōrem stupōrēs
ablative stupōre stupōribus
vocative stupor stupōrēs

Derived terms

Descendants

Descendants

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.

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin stupor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstu.pɔr/
  • Rhymes: -upɔr
  • Syllabification: stu‧por

Noun

stupor m inan

  1. (medicine) stupor (state of greatly dulled or completely suspended consciousness or sensibility; a chiefly mental condition marked by absence of spontaneous movement, greatly diminished responsiveness to stimulation, and usually impaired consciousness)
    Synonym: osłupienie

Declension

Declension of stupor
singular plural
nominative stupor stupory
genitive stuporu stuporów
dative stuporowi stuporom
accusative stupor stupory
instrumental stuporem stuporami
locative stuporze stuporach
vocative stuporze stupory

Further reading

  • stupor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • stupor in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

Noun

stupor

  1. indefinite plural of stupa

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