stopper

C2+ Topic:Word Formation & Derivatives

US /ˈstɑpɚ/ UK /ˈstɒpə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a plug for sealing a bottle or other container

He pulled the glass stopper from the decanter.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a plug for sealing a bottle... plug cork bung stopple seal cap

Word family

Related forms stop stopple

Etymology

From the verb 'stop' (Old English 'stoppian', to plug or close up, ultimately from Vulgar Latin '*stuppare', to stop with tow) plus the agentive suffix '-er'.

stoppian Old English *stuppare Latin

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Topics

Word Formation & Derivatives General Vocabulary

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# stopper

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈstɑpɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈstɒpə/

## Meanings
1. a plug for sealing a bottle or other container

## Examples
- He pulled the glass stopper from the decanter.

## Synonyms
- plug
- cork
- bung
- stopple
- seal
- cap

## Related Forms
- stop
- stopple

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: stoppian
- Root: *stuppare

## Etymology
From the verb 'stop' (Old English 'stoppian', to plug or close up, ultimately from Vulgar Latin '*stuppare', to stop with tow) plus the agentive suffix '-er'.

## AI Etymology
Stopper comes from the verb 'stop' (Old English 'stoppian', to plug or close up, ultimately from Vulgar Latin '*stuppare', to stop with tow) plus the agentive suffix '-er'. The historical chain includes Old English stoppian and Latin *stuppare. The quoted older senses, "stop", "stoppian", "*stuppare", and "-er", supply the semantic anchors for stopper. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word stopper carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a plug for sealing a bottle or other container". Related English forms include stop and stopple. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- General Vocabulary

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