sopor

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor (“sleep”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊpə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊpɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)

sopor (plural sopors)

1. (medicine) An unnaturally deep sleep.

• Spoor, proso, roops, spoor, sporo-

Learned borrowing from Latin sopōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈpor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [soˈpor]

sopor m or f (plural sopors)

1. a deep sleep
2. (figurative) drowsiness, sluggishness

   Synonyms: somnolència, ensopiment

3. (pathology) sopor

• soporós

• “sopor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Proto-Italic *swepōs, from Proto-Indo-European *swep-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.pɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.por]

sopor m (genitive sopōris); third declension

1. A deep sleep, sopor; sleep (in general), slumber; catalepsy.

   Synonym: somnus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.522–523:

     Nox erat, et placidum carpēbant fessa sopōrem / corpora per terrās [...].

     It was night, and weary bodies were enjoying peaceful deep sleep throughout the lands [...].

2. The sleep of death; death.

   Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, exitus, perniciēs, fīnis, somnus

3. (figuratively) Stupefaction; lethargy, stupor; drowsiness
4. (figuratively) Laziness, indifference.
5. (figuratively) Opium.
6. (figuratively) A sleeping potion or draught; opiate.
7. (figuratively) The temple (of the head).

Third-declension noun.

• sopōrātus

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

Borrowed from French sopor, from Latin sopor.

sopor n (uncountable)

1. sopor

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor.

• IPA^(key): /soˈpoɾ/ [soˈpoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: so‧por

sopor m (plural sopores)

1. stupor, drowsiness, sluggishness

   Synonym: estupor

• “sopor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

sopor

1. indefinite plural of sopa