insomnia

See also: insómnia and insômnia

English

Etymology

From Latin in- (“without”) +‎ somnus (“sleep”, noun) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɒmniə/

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Noun

insomnia (countable and uncountable, plural insomnias)

1. (medicine) A sleeping disorder that is known for its symptoms of unrest and the inability to sleep.

   My mother suffers from insomnia.

Synonyms

• sleeplessness

Antonyms

• hypersomnia

Hyponyms

• big eye (Antarctica)
• fatal familial insomnia

Derived terms

• coronasomnia
• insomniac

Translations

sleeping disorder

• Albanian: pagjumësi (sq) f
• Arabic: أَرَق m (ʔaraq), سُهْد (ar) (suhd)
• Armenian: անքնություն (hy) (ankʿnutʿyun)
• Aromanian: nisomn n
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܣܩܘܼܬ ܕܡܵܟ݂ܵܐ f (ʿasqut dmāḵā)
• Asturian: vela (ast) f, velea f
• Azerbaijani: yuxusuzluq (az)
• Belarusian: бяссо́нніца f (bjassónnica), бе́ссань f (bjéssanʹ)
• Bengali: অনিদ্রা (bn) (onidra)
• Bulgarian: безсъ́ние (bg) n (bezsǎ́nie)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: insomni m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 失眠 (sat¹ min⁴), 失眠症 (sat¹ min⁴ zing³)

  Hakka: 失眠 (sṳt-min)

  Hokkien: 失眠 (zh-min-nan) (sit-bîn), 無眠／无眠 (zh-min-nan) (bô-bîn)

  Mandarin: 失眠 (zh) (shīmián)

• Czech: nespavost f
• Danish: søvnløshed (da) c
• Dutch: slapeloosheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: sendormeco
• Estonian: unetus
• Faroese: andvekur m, svøvnloysi n
• Finnish: unettomuus (fi)
• French: insomnie (fr) f
• Galician: insomnio (gl) m
• Georgian: უძილობა (uʒiloba)
• German: Schlaflosigkeit (de) f
• Greek: αϋπνία (el) f (aÿpnía)

  Ancient Greek: ἀγρυπνίᾱ f (agrupníā), ἀϋπνία f (aüpnía)

• Gujarati: અનિદ્રા (anidrā)
• Hebrew: נְדוּדֵי שֵׁנָה (he)
• Hindi: अनिद्रा (hi) f (anidrā)
• Hungarian: álmatlanság (hu)
• Icelandic: svefnleysi (is) n, andvaka (is) f
• Ingrian: unenhätä
• Irish: neamhchodladh m, neamhshuan m, díth codlata f
• Italian: insonnia (it) f
• Japanese: 不眠 (ja) (ふみん, fumin), 不眠症 (ja) (ふみんしょう, fuminshō)
• Kazakh: ұйқысыздық (ūiqysyzdyq)
• Khmer: អនិទ្រា (km) (ʼaʼnɨttriə)
• Korean: 불면증(不眠症) (ko) (bulmyeonjeung)
• Kyrgyz: уйкусуздук (uykusuzduk)
• Latin: insomnia f, insomnietās f
• Latvian: bezmiegs m
• Lithuanian: nemiga f
• Macedonian: несоница f (nesonica)
• Malay: insomnia
• Manx: neuchadlaght f, neuchadley m, neuchadlys m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: søvnløshet m or f, søvnløyse m or f

  Nynorsk: søvnløyse f

• Occitan: insomnia (oc) f
• Old English: slǣplīest f
• Ottoman Turkish: اویقوسزلق (uykusuzluk)
• Pali: anidrā
• Persian: بی‌خوابی (fa) (bi-xâbi)
• Polish: bezsenność (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: insônia (pt) f

  European: insónia (pt) f

• Punjabi: ਅਨੀਂਦਰਾ (pa) m (anīndrā)
• Romanian: insomnie (ro) f, nesomn (ro) n
• Russian: бессо́нница (ru) f (bessónnica), инсомни́я (ru) f (insomníja)
• Sanskrit: अनिद्रा (sa) (anidrā)
• Scottish Gaelic: bacadh-cadail m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нѐсаница f, бѐсаница f, инсо̀мнија f

  Roman: nèsanica (sh) f, bèsanica (sh) f, insòmnija (sh) f

• Slovak: nespavosť f
• Slovene: nespéčnost f
• Spanish: insomnio (es) m
• Swedish: insomni, sömnlöshet (sv)
• Tajik: бедорхобӣ (bedorxobī), бехобӣ (bexobī), камхобӣ (kamxobī)
• Tatar: йокысызлык (tt) (yoqısızlıq)
• Telugu: నిద్రలేమి (te) (nidralēmi)
• Thai: โรคนอนไม่หลับ (rôok-nɔɔn-mâi-lòp)
• Turkish: uykusuzluk (tr)
• Turkmen: ukusyzlyk
• Ukrainian: безсо́ння (uk) n (bezsónnja), нічниця f (ničnycja)
• Urdu: بے خوابی f (be xvābī)
• Uyghur: ئۇيقۇسىزلىق (uyqusizliq)
• Uzbek: uyqusizlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: mất ngủ (vi) (𠅎㬳)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: anhunedd m
• Yiddish: שלאָפֿלאָזיקייט f (shloflozikeyt)
• Yoruba: àìróorunsùn

Anagrams

• Simonian

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈsom.ni.a/, [ĩːˈs̠ɔmniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsom.ni.a/, [inˈsɔmniä]

Etymology 1

From insomnis +‎ -ia.

Noun

īnsomnia f (genitive īnsomniae); first declension

1. sleeplessness, insomnia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnsomnia	īnsomniae
Genitive	īnsomniae	īnsomniārum
Dative	īnsomniae	īnsomniīs
Accusative	īnsomniam	īnsomniās
Ablative	īnsomniā	īnsomniīs
Vocative	īnsomnia	īnsomniae

Descendants

• English: insomnia
• Italian: insonnia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

īnsomnia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of īnsomnis

References

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [insomˈni.a]

Noun

insomnia f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of insomnie