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Latin
Etymology
From somnus (“sleep”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
somniculus m (genitive somniculī); second declension
- a little sleep.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- somniculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “somniculus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC