soporとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin sopor (“sleep”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsəʊpə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsoʊpɚ/
• 韻: -əʊpə(ɹ)

名詞

sopor (plural sopors)

1. (medicine) An unnaturally deep sleep.

アナグラム

• Spoor, proso, roops, spoor, sporo-

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈso.por/, [ˈs̠ɔpɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈso.por/, [ˈsɔːpor]

名詞

sopor m (genitive sopōris); third declension

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

   Synonym: somnus

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).

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

関連する語

• sopōrātus

派生した語

Further reading

• “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.