dormition

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French dormition, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dormītiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔːˈmɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

dormition (countable and uncountable, plural dormitions)

1. The process of falling asleep.
2. (euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself.
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 507:

     The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.

Synonyms

• sleep

Related terms

• dorm
• dormant
• dormitive
• dormitory

Translations

falling asleep

• Finnish: nukahtaminen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 睡眠 (ja) (suimin)

the process of death

• Finnish: kuoleminen (fi), poisnukkuminen, kuolema (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

the actual death

• Finnish: kuolema (fi)
• Georgian: მიძინება (miʒineba)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 永眠 (eimin), 瞑目 (meimoku)

the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary

• Arabic: رُقَاد (ruqād)
• Finnish: kuolonuneen nukkuminen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: dormition (fr) f
• Georgian: მიძინება (miʒineba)
• Russian: успе́ние (ru) n (uspénije)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

Noun

dormition f (plural dormitions)

1. dormition