sopite

English

Etymology

Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire (“to put to sleep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈpaɪt/

Verb

sopite (third-person singular simple present sopites, present participle sopiting, simple past and past participle sopited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put to sleep, or to quieten.
   • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:

     ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.

Derived terms

• sopite syndrome

References

• “sopite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• postie

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

sopite

1. inflection of sopire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

sopite f pl

1. feminine plural of sopito

Anagrams

• ospite, pestio, spoeti

Latin

Participle

sōpīte

1. vocative masculine singular of sōpītus

Portuguese

Verb

sopite

1. inflection of sopitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative