stupor

• stupour (obsolete)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstjuː.pə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.pɚ/, /ˈstju.pɚ/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

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

• stupefy
• stupefaction
• stupendous
• stupid

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.

• “stupor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “stupor”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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

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

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

stupor m (genitive stupōris); third declension

1. Numbness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement.

   Synonym: torpor

2. (especially) Dullness, stupidity, stolidity.

Third-declension noun.

• stupōrātus (adjective)

• “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.

stupor

1. indefinite plural of stupa

• utrops