somniculosus

Latin

FWOTD – 29 September 2023

Etymology

From somniculus (“little sleep”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”). Vowel length altered after febrīculōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /som.niː.kuˈloː.sus/, [s̠ɔmniːkʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /som.ni.kuˈlo.sus/, [somnikuˈlɔːs̬us]

Adjective

somnīculōsus (feminine somnīculōsa, neuter somnīculōsum, adverb somnīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. sleepy, drowsy
   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.36, (choliambic meter):

     somnīculōsōs ille porrigit glīrēs

     This one offers sleepy dormouses

2. sluggish, slothful
3. (active notion) making sleepy, drowsy or sluggish
4. deadly

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	somnīculōsus	somnīculōsa	somnīculōsum		somnīculōsī	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsa
Genitive	somnīculōsī	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsī		somnīculōsōrum	somnīculōsārum	somnīculōsōrum
Dative	somnīculōsō		somnīculōsō		somnīculōsīs
Accusative	somnīculōsum	somnīculōsam	somnīculōsum		somnīculōsōs	somnīculōsās	somnīculōsa
Ablative	somnīculōsō	somnīculōsā	somnīculōsō		somnīculōsīs
Vocative	somnīculōse	somnīculōsa	somnīculōsum		somnīculōsī	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsa

Descendants

• Italian: sonnacchioso
• → English: somniculous
• → Portuguese: soniculoso

References

• “somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• somniculosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• somniculosus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung