stuprum

English

Etymology

Latin stuprum

Noun

stuprum (plural stupra)

1. stupration; rape
   • 2006, Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome, page 119:

     By this point the fulcrum of concern is the stuprum of men upon men, described as more prevalent than that upon women.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stuprum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *stupros, a nominalisation of Proto-Indo-European *stup-ro- (“stuck, stunned > dishonoured”, adjective), from the root *(s)tewp- (“to push, hit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.prum/, [ˈs̠t̪ʊprʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstu.prum/, [ˈst̪uːprum]

Noun

stuprum n (genitive stuprī); second declension

1. dishonor, disgrace, shame, defilement
2. debauchery, lewdness, violation

   Synonym: adulterium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stuprum	stupra
Genitive	stuprī	stuprōrum
Dative	stuprō	stuprīs
Accusative	stuprum	stupra
Ablative	stuprō	stuprīs
Vocative	stuprum	stupra

Derived terms

• stuprē
• stuprō
• stuprōsus

 

Related terms

• stupeō

Descendants

• Catalan: estupre
• French: stupre
• Irish: striapach
• Italian: stupro
• Portuguese: estupro
• Spanish: estupro

Further reading

• “stuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “stuprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stuprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “stuprum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “stuprum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin