different between aestivation vs torpor

English

Alternative forms

• æstivation
• estivation

Etymology

Formed from Latin aestivare, from aestus (“heat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?st??ve???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

aestivation (countable and uncountable, plural aestivations)

1. (biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
2. (botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
3. (obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer.

Related terms

• aestivate

See also

• (inactivity): torpor

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• torpour

Etymology

From Latin torpor (“numbness”), from torpe? (“I am numb”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??p?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??p?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p?(?)

Noun

torpor (countable and uncountable, plural torpors)

1. A state of being inactive or stuporous.
2. A state of apathy or lethargy.

   Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness, languor, torpidity
3. (biology) A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.

   Coordinate terms: hibernation, aestivation, cold sleep, hypersleep, suspended animation

Derived terms

• torporific

Related terms

• torpidity
• torpid
• torpidness
• torpedo

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From torpe? +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tor.por/, [?t??rp?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tor.por/, [?t??rp?r]

Noun

torpor m (genitive torp?ris); third declension

1. numbness, stupefaction
2. sluggishness, listlessness, inactivity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: torpor
• ? French: torpeur
• ? Italian: torpore
• ? Portuguese: torpor
• ? Spanish: torpor

References

• torpor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torpor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torpor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Noun

torpor m (plural torpores)

1. torpor (state of being inactive or stuporous)