stuppo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *stoppōn (to stop, plug, insert). Alternatively from or a confluence with Latin stuppa (coarse flax, tow) +‎ (denominative suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

stuppō (present infinitive stuppāre, perfect active stuppāvī, supine stuppātum); first conjugation[1][2]

  1. (Medieval Latin) to stop up, block, plug

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance: (< adstuppō?)
    • Aromanian: astup, astupu
    • Romanian: astupa
  • Old French: estoper, estuper, estouper, estopper
    • Middle French: estouper, estoupper, estoper
    • Old French: estopaille, estoupaille, estoupaile
      • Middle French: estoupail, estouppal
        • French: étoupail (dialectal)
      • Middle English: stoupaille, stoppaile
    • Middle English: estoppen
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Old Occitan: estopar
    • Catalan: estopar
    • Occitan: estopar
  • Old Spanish: estopar
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansch: stuppar
  • Venetan: stupar
  • Albanian: shtupoj

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “stuppare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 995
  2. ^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “stupo (stuppo)”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 871