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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin somniculōsus (“drowsy, sleepy”). By surface analysis, sonnecchiare + -oso.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /son.nakˈkjo.zo/, (traditional) /son.nakˈkjo.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: son‧nac‧chió‧so
Adjective
sonnacchioso (feminine sonnacchiosa, masculine plural sonnacchiosi, feminine plural sonnacchiose)
- drowsy, sleepy
- Synonyms: sonnolento, assonnato, insonnolito
- (literary) indifferent, lazy
- Synonyms: indolente, apatico
- (archaic) sleep-inductive, soporific, slumberous, somnolent
Derived terms
References
- sonnacchioso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana