# stupor
## English
### Alternative forms

* stupour (obsolete)

### 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

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈstjuː.pə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈstu.pɚ/, /ˈstju.pɚ/
** Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

### Noun

stupor (countable and uncountable, plural stupors)
* 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.
* A state of extreme apathy or torpor resulting often from stress or shock.
    Synonym: daze

#### Related terms

* stupefy
* stupefaction
* stupendous
* stupid

#### Translations
### Verb

stupor (third-person singular simple present stupors, present participle stuporing, simple past and past participle stupored) (transitive)
* To place into a stupor; to stupefy.

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Troups, Proust, Stroup, sprout, Sprout, Portus, surtop

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈstu.por/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊpɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈstu.por/, [ˈst̪uːpor]

### Noun

stupor m (genitive stupōris); third declension
* Numbness; dullness, insensibility, stupidity, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement.
    Synonym: torpor
* (especially) Dullness, stupidity, stolidity.
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#### Inflection

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* stupōrātus (adjective)

#### Descendants

* → English: stupor
* → French: stupeur
* → Italian: stupore
* → Piedmontese: stupor
* → Portuguese: estupor
* → Russian: ступор (stupor)
* → Sicilian: stupuri
* → Spanish: estupor

### 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
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin stupor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstu.pɔr/
* Rhymes: -upɔr
* Syllabification: stu‧por

### Noun

stupor m inan
* (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
### Further reading

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

## Swedish
### Noun

stupor
* indefinite plural of stupa

### Anagrams

* utrops