stuprum

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English

Etymology

From Latin stuprum.

Noun

stuprum (plural stupra)

  1. stupration; rape
    • 2006, Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome, page 119:
      By this point the fulcrum of concern is the stuprum of men upon men, described as more prevalent than that upon women.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stuprum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stupros, a nominalisation of Proto-Indo-European *stup-ro- (stuck, stunned > dishonoured, adjective), from the root *(s)tewp- (to push, hit).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

stuprum n (genitive stuprī); second declension

  1. dishonor, disgrace, shame, defilement
  2. debauchery, lewdness, violation
    Synonym: adulterium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stupeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593

Further reading

  • stuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • stuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stuprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • stuprum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stuprum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin