torpor

• torpour

From Latin torpor (“numbness”), from torpeō (“I am numb”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːpə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔɹpɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)

torpor (countable and uncountable, plural torpors)

1. A state of being inactive or stuporous.
2. A state of apathy or lethargy.

   Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness, languor, torpidity

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     She knew that she was the cause of her husband's utter ruin; and she strung herself to bear the consequences. The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.

3. (biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.

   Coordinate terms: hibernation, aestivation, cold sleep, hypersleep, suspended animation

• daily torpor
• torporific

• torpidity
• torpid
• torpidness
• torpedo

From torpeō +‎ -or.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.por/, [ˈt̪ɔrpɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtor.por/, [ˈt̪ɔrpor]

torpor m (genitive torpōris); third declension

1. numbness, stupefaction
2. sluggishness, listlessness, inactivity

Third-declension noun.

• → English: torpor
• → French: torpeur
• → Italian: torpore
• → Portuguese: torpor
• → Spanish: torpor

• “torpor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “torpor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torpor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Hyphenation: tor‧por

torpor m (plural torpores)

1. torpor (state of being inactive or stuporous)