stupeo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognates include Ancient Greek τύπτω (túptō, “I strike”), Sanskrit तोपति (tópati, “to hurt”), Albanian shtyj (“to thrust”), Old Church Slavonic тъпати (tŭpati), and Old English styntan (English stint), Old English stybb (English stub), Old English stēap (English steep)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstu.pe.oː/, [ˈstʊ.pe.oː]
Verb
stupeō (present infinitive stupēre, perfect active stupuī, supine stupītum); second conjugation, no passive
- (intransitive) I am stunned, stiffened or benumbed, stop, hesitate.
- (intransitive) I am dazed, speechless or silenced; I am astounded, confounded, aghast or amazed.
- c. 50 CE, Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607
- Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.
- Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.
- Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.
- c. 50 CE, Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607
- (transitive) I am astonished or amazed at, wonder at.
Inflection
| Conjugation of stupeo (second conjugation, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | stupeō | stupēs | stupet | stupēmus | stupētis | stupent |
| imperfect | stupēbam | stupēbās | stupēbat | stupēbāmus | stupēbātis | stupēbant | |
| future | stupēbō | stupēbis | stupēbit | stupēbimus | stupēbitis | stupēbunt | |
| perfect | stupuī | stupuistī | stupuit | stupuimus | stupuistis | stupuērunt, stupuēre | |
| pluperfect | stupueram | stupuerās | stupuerat | stupuerāmus | stupuerātis | stupuerant | |
| future perfect | stupuerō | stupueris | stupuerit | stupuerimus | stupueritis | stupuerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | stupeam | stupeās | stupeat | stupeāmus | stupeātis | stupeant |
| imperfect | stupērem | stupērēs | stupēret | stupērēmus | stupērētis | stupērent | |
| perfect | stupuerim | stupuerīs | stupuerit | stupuerimus | stupueritis | stupuerint | |
| pluperfect | stupuissem | stupuissēs | stupuisset | stupuissēmus | stupuissētis | stupuissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | stupē | — | — | stupēte | — |
| future | — | stupētō | stupētō | — | stupētōte | stupentō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | stupēre | stupuisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | stupēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| stupēre | stupendī | stupendō | stupendum | — | — | ||
Synonyms
- (I am amazed at): astupeō, mīror, obstupēscō
Derived terms
- astupeō
- circumstupeō
- constupeō
- īnstupeō
- stupefaciō
- stupēns
- stupēscō
- stupidus
- stupor
- stuprum
Related terms
- stupiditās
- stupidō
- stupōrātus
Descendants
- Italian: stupire
- Spanish: estuper
References
- stupeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stupeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stupeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette