somnio

Catalan

Verb

somnio

1. first-person singular present indicative of somniar

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swep-der.

Latin somnium

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin somniō

From somnium (“a dream”) + -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔm.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔm.ni.o]

Noun

somniō

1. ablative/dative singular of somnium

Verb

somniō (present infinitive somniāre, perfect active somniāvī, supine somniātum); first conjugation

1. to dream
2. to daydream, think idly
3. to talk idly

Conjugation

   Conjugation of somniō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	somniō		somniās		somniat		somniāmus		somniātis		somniant
	imperfect	somniābam		somniābās		somniābat		somniābāmus		somniābātis		somniābant
	future	somniābō		somniābis		somniābit		somniābimus		somniābitis		somniābunt
	perfect	somniāvī		somniāvistī		somniāvit		somniāvimus		somniāvistis		somniāvērunt, somniāvēre
	pluperfect	somniāveram		somniāverās		somniāverat		somniāverāmus		somniāverātis		somniāverant
	future perfect	somniāverō		somniāveris		somniāverit		somniāverimus		somniāveritis		somniāverint
passive	present	somnior		somniāris, somniāre		somniātur		somniāmur		somniāminī		somniantur
	imperfect	somniābar		somniābāris, somniābāre		somniābātur		somniābāmur		somniābāminī		somniābantur
	future	somniābor		somniāberis, somniābere		somniābitur		somniābimur		somniābiminī		somniābuntur
	perfect	somniātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	somniātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	somniātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	somniem		somniēs		somniet		somniēmus		somniētis		somnient
	imperfect	somniārem		somniārēs		somniāret		somniārēmus		somniārētis		somniārent
	perfect	somniāverim		somniāverīs		somniāverit		somniāverīmus		somniāverītis		somniāverint
	pluperfect	somniāvissem		somniāvissēs		somniāvisset		somniāvissēmus		somniāvissētis		somniāvissent
passive	present	somnier		somniēris, somniēre		somniētur		somniēmur		somniēminī		somnientur
	imperfect	somniārer		somniārēris, somniārēre		somniārētur		somniārēmur		somniārēminī		somniārentur
	perfect	somniātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	somniātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		somniā		—		—		somniāte		—
	future	—		somniātō		somniātō		—		somniātōte		somniantō
passive	present	—		somniāre		—		—		somniāminī		—
	future	—		somniātor		somniātor		—		—		somniantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		somniāre			somniārī			somniāns			—
future		somniātūrum esse			somniātum īrī			somniātūrus			somniandus
perfect		somniāvisse			somniātum esse			—			somniātus
future perfect		—			somniātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		somniātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		somniandī		somniandō		somniandum		somniandō		somniātum		somniātū

Derived terms

• somniātor

Related terms

• somniālis
• somniāliter
• somniculōsē
• somniculōsus
• somnifer
• somnificus
• somniger
• somniōsus
• somnium
• somnulentia
• somnulentus
• somnus

Descendants

• Asturian: soñar
• Catalan: somiar
• Friulian: insumiâsi
• Italian: sognare
• Occitan: somiar
• Old French: songier
  • Middle French: songer
    • French: songer
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sonhar
  • Galician: soñar
  • Portuguese: sonhar
• Piedmontese: sugné
• Romansh: siemiar, semiar, simgier, insömger, insömgiar
• Sardinian: sonnai, sonniare, sunniare
• Sicilian: sunnari, nsunnari, nzunnari
• Spanish: soñar

References

• “somnio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “somnio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “somnio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to dream of a person: somniare de aliquo