somnus

From Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from the root *swep- (“to sleep”) (compare Lithuanian sãpnas).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsom.nus/, [ˈsɔm.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsom.nus/

somnus m (genitive somnī); second declension

1. sleep
2. drowsiness, slumber sloth, idleness
3. (figuratively) death

Second declension.

• sōpiō
• sopor

• somnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• somnus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• somnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• somnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lay oneself down to slee: somno or quieti se tradere
    
  • to be unable to sleep: somnum capere non posse
    
  • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    
  • I haven't had a wink of sleep: somnum oculis meis non vidi (Fam. 7. 30)
    
  • to fall fast asleep: artus somnus aliquem complectitur (Rep. 6. 10)
    
  • to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
    
  • to awake: somno solvi
    
  • to rouse, wake some one: (e) somno excitare, dormientem excitare
    
  • in a dream: per somnum, in somnis
    
  • to see something in a dream: in somnis videre aliquid or speciem
    
  • I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
    
  • to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
    
• somnus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• somnus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray