stopper C2+ Topic:People & Society 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... plugcorkbungstopplesealcap Word family Related forms stopstopple Etymology AI details 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 View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # 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 - People & Society - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown