## Etymology
From Latin stupor ('numbness, insensibility, dullness'), from stupēre ('to be stunned, benumbed'), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ('to strike, push').

## AI Etymology
Stupor comes from Latin stupor ('numbness, insensibility, dullness'), from stupēre ('to be stunned, benumbed'), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ('to strike, push'). The historical chain includes Latin stupor, Latin stupēre, and Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-. The quoted older senses, "numbness, insensibility, dullness", "to be stunned, benumbed", and "to strike, push", supply the semantic anchors for stupor. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word stupor carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility". English derivatives include stuporous; related English forms include stupefy, stupid, and stupendous. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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