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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɔːpə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈtɔɹpɚ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)

名詞

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. […], volume I, 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

派生語

• daily torpor
• torporific

関連する語

• torpidity
• torpid
• torpidness
• torpedo

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtɔr.pɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtɔr.por]

名詞

torpor m (genitive torpōris); third declension

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

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

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

参照

• “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.