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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *swepnos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from the root *swep- (“to sleep”) (compare Lithuanian sãpnas, Sanskrit स्वप्न (svapna)).
Pronunciation
Noun
somnus m (genitive somnī); second declension
- sleep, slumber
- Synonym: sopor
- per somnum/somnos ― sleeping
- in somnis/somno ― sleeping
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 2.635:
- iamque ubi suādēbit placidōs nox hūmida somnōs
- And now, when damp night will induce peaceful slumbers
- drowsiness, idleness, inactivity, laziness, sloth
- (figuratively) death
- Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, exitus, interitus, perniciēs, fīnis, sopor
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- “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, 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
- ^ 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