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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

A nominalisation of Proto-Indo-European *stup-ro- (“stuck, stunned > dishonoured”, adjective), from the root *(s)tewp- (“to push, hit”).[1]

Pronunciation

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

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

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stupeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593

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
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