somnium

Latin

Etymology

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Derived from somnus (“sleep”).
Surface analysis: somn(us) (“sleep”) +‎ -ium (nominal derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsom.ni.um/, [ˈs̠ɔmniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsom.ni.um/, [ˈsɔmnium]

Noun

somnium n (genitive somniī or somnī); second declension

1. dream, vision
2. fantasy, daydream

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	somnium	somnia
Genitive	somniī somnī1	somniōrum
Dative	somniō	somniīs
Accusative	somnium	somnia
Ablative	somniō	somniīs
Vocative	somnium	somnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• somniālis
• somniāliter
• somniātor
• somniō

Related terms

• somniculōsē
• somniculōsus
• somnifer
• somnificus
• somniger

• somniōsus
• somnulentia
• somnulentus
• somnus

Descendants

• Asturian: suañu, sueñu
• Old Catalan: suny
  • Catalan: somni
• Franco-Provençal: sonjo
• French: songe
• Friulian: sium
• Galician: soño
• Istriot: sugno
• Italian: sogno

• Ligurian: séunno
• Occitan: sòmi
• Portuguese: sonho
• Romansch: siemi, semi, sömmi
• Sardinian: sónniu, sonnu
• Sicilian: sonnu, suonnu
• Spanish: sueño

References

• “somnium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “somnium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• somnium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• somnium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • my dream is coming true: somnium verum evādit (Div. 2. 53. 108)
    
  • to explain a dream: somnium interpretari
    
  • an interpreter of dreams: somniorum interpres, coniector