Torpêdo, pe. pro. torpédinis, f. g. Idem. quod Torpor. Sal. Torpedo, f. g. item gen. Plin. A fish that hath the nature to make the handes of them that touch it to be astonyed, though he doth it with a long pole.Callida torpedo. Claud. Dira. Claud. Ferox. Claud. Mollis. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
torpēdo, ĭnis, f. [torpeo], stiffness, numbness, inflexibility, sluggishness, torpidity.I.Lit. (rare; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn. torpor): inertia atque torpedo plus detrimenti facit quam exercitio, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 6: occupavit nescio qua vos torpedo, qua non gloria movemini neque flagitio, Sall. H. 3, 61, 26 Dietsch: si tanta torpedo animos obrepsit, ut, etc., id. ib. 1, 48, 19 ib.: tanta torpedo invaserat animum, ut, etc., Tac. H. 3, 63.—II.Transf., the torpedo, crampfish, or electric ray: Raia torpedo, Linn.; Varr. L. L. 5, 77 Müll.; Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 127; Plin. 9, 42, 67, 143; 32, 1, 2, 7.