somnambulist

English

Etymology

From Latin Somnat meaning pertaining to sleep + Ambulat meaning pertaining to walking

Noun

somnambulist (plural somnambulists)

1. A person who walks about in his or her sleep; a sleepwalker.
   • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, ch. 17:

     The clergyman floundered a moment, as is usual with an absent man who is recovering the train of his ideas, or a somnambulist when he is suddenly awakened.

Quotations

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Related terms

• somnambulate
• somnambulistic

Translations

a sleepwalker

Finnish: unissakävelijä (fi) German: Schlafwandler (de) m. Hindi: निद्राचारी (hi) (nidrācārī) Hungarian: alvajáró (hu), holdkóros (hu) Lithuanian: somnambulas (lt) m. Portuguese: sonâmbulo (pt) m.

Romanian: somnambul (ro) m., somnambulist (ro) m. Russian: лунатик (ru) (lunátik) m., сомнамбула (ru) (somnámbula) m. and f. Spanish: sonámbulo (es) m. Swedish: sömngångare (sv)

Anagrams

• immunoblasts

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [som.nam.buˈlist]

Noun

somnambulist m. (plural somnambuliști)

1. somnambulist

Synonyms

• noctambul
• somnambul