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 English sweven, Sanskrit स्वप्न (svápna), Italian sonno and Latvian sapnis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈipnɔs/
Hyphenation: ύ‧πνος

Noun

ύπνος • (ýpnos) m (plural ύπνοι)

sleep

Declension

declension of ύπνος

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

Coordinate terms

πάω για ύπνο (páo gia ýpno, “to go to bed, to go for a sleep”)
σηκώνομαι (sikónomai, “to get up”)

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