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dormio

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Italic *dormjō,[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (to sleep).

    Cognates include Old Church Slavonic дрѣмати (drěmati, to drowse, doze), Russian дрема́ть (dremátʹ), Sanskrit द्राति (drāti, to sleep), Ancient Greek δαρθάνω (darthánō, to sleep).

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    Verb

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    dormiō (present infinitive dormīre, perfect active dormīvī or dormiī, supine dormītum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive

    1. to sleep
      Synonyms: dormītō, cubō
      Antonyms: expergīscor, vigilō
      dormītum.
      I'm going to sleep.
      Dormītūrī tē salūtant.
      Those (we) who are about to sleep salute you.
      • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5:
        Nōbīs cum semel occidit brevis lūx, nox est perpetua ūna dormienda.
        When the brief light has set on us, we must sleep one eternal night.
      • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Sermones 2.1.7:
        vērum nequeō dormīre
        In truth, I can't sleep.
      • 4th century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 24:27:
        parum inquam dormiēs modicum dormitābis pauxillum manūs cōnserēs ut quiēscās
        Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.
        (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)

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    References

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    • dormio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • dormio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • dormio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
      • to sleep soundly (from fatigue): arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
      • to sleep on into the morning: in lucem dormire
    1. ^ dormire” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
    2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN