ύπνος

See also: Ύπνος, Ὕπνος, and ὕπνος

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from the root *swep- (“to sleep”).
Cognates include Mariupol Greek и́пно (ípno), English sweven, Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna), Spanish sueño, Italian sonno and Latvian sapnis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈipnos/
• Hyphenation: ύ‧πνος

Noun

ύπνος • (ýpnos) m (plural ύπνοι)

1. sleep

Declension

Declension of ύπνος

	singular	plural
nominative	ύπνος •	ύπνοι •
genitive	ύπνου •	ύπνων •
accusative	ύπνο •	ύπνους •
vocative	ύπνε •	ύπνοι •

Derived terms

• αξύπνητος (axýpnitos, “not awake, asleep”)
• πάω για ύπνο (páo gia ýpno, “to go to bed/sleep”)
• υπναράς m (ypnarás, “sleepyhead”)

 

Further reading

• ύπνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• “ύπνος”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998