somniculosus

Latin

FWOTD – 29 September 2023

Etymology

From somniculus (“little sleep”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”). Vowel length altered after febrīculōsus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

somnīculōsus (feminine somnīculōsa, neuter somnīculōsum, adverb somnīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. sleepy, drowsy
    • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.36, (choliambic meter):
      somnīculōsōs ille porrigit glīrēs
      This one offers sleepy dormouses
  2. sluggish, slothful
  3. (active notion) making sleepy, drowsy or sluggish
  4. deadly

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative somnīculōsus somnīculōsa somnīculōsum somnīculōsī somnīculōsae somnīculōsa
genitive somnīculōsī somnīculōsae somnīculōsī somnīculōsōrum somnīculōsārum somnīculōsōrum
dative somnīculōsō somnīculōsae somnīculōsō somnīculōsīs
accusative somnīculōsum somnīculōsam somnīculōsum somnīculōsōs somnīculōsās somnīculōsa
ablative somnīculōsō somnīculōsā somnīculōsō somnīculōsīs
vocative somnīculōse somnīculōsa somnīculōsum somnīculōsī somnīculōsae somnīculōsa

Descendants

  • Italian: sonnacchioso
  • → English: somniculous
  • → Portuguese: soniculoso

References

  • “somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • somniculosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • somniculosus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
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