soñolencia
See also: sonolência
Spanish
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin somnolentia, derived from Latin somnus (“sleep”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soɲoˈlenθja/ [so.ɲoˈlẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /soɲoˈlensja/ [so.ɲoˈlẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: so‧ño‧len‧cia
Noun
soñolencia f (plural soñolencias)
- drowsiness, sleepiness
- Synonym: somnolencia
Related terms
Further reading
- “soñolencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024