See also: Somnus

Latin

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *swepnos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from the root *swep- (to sleep) (compare Lithuanian sãpnas, Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna)).[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    somnus m (genitive somnī); second declension

     
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    1. sleep, slumber
      Synonym: sopor
      per somnum/somnossleeping
      in somnis/somnosleeping
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.635:
        iamque ubi suādēbit placidōs nox hūmida somnōs
        And now, when damp night will induce peaceful slumbers
    2. drowsiness, idleness, inactivity, laziness, sloth
    3. (figuratively) death
      Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, exitus, interitus, perniciēs, fīnis, sopor

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative somnus somnī
    genitive somnī somnōrum
    dative somnō somnīs
    accusative somnum somnōs
    ablative somnō somnīs
    vocative somne somnī

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    References

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    • somnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • somnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • somnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • somnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to lay oneself down to slee: somno or quieti se tradere
      • to be unable to sleep: somnum capere non posse
      • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
      • I haven't had a wink of sleep: somnum oculis meis non vidi (Fam. 7. 30)
      • to fall fast asleep: artus somnus aliquem complectitur (Rep. 6. 10)
      • to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
      • to awake: somno solvi
      • to rouse, wake some one: (e) somno excitare, dormientem excitare
      • in a dream: per somnum, in somnis
      • to see something in a dream: in somnis videre aliquid or speciem
      • I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
      • to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
    • somnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • somnus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
    • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 573-4