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- Latin · derived fromstupefaciō“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”
- Middle French · derived fromstupéfaction
- English todaystupefaction
From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“to be stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“to do, make”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.