torpeo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”), see also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstù (“I melt; I become benumbed (by cold etc.)”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtor.pe.oː/, [ˈt̪ɔrpeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtor.pe.o/, [ˈt̪ɔrpeo]
Verb edit
torpeō (present infinitive torpēre, perfect active torpuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
Conjugation edit
Synonyms edit
- (I am numb): obtorpeō
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italian: torpere
References edit
- “torpeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “torpeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- torpeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere
- to be numb with cold: frigore (gelu) rigere, torpere