English

Somnus (sleep) and his brother Mors (death).

Proper noun

Somnus

1. (Roman mythology) The god and personification of sleep; the Roman counterpart of Hypnos.

Related terms

• insomnia

Translations

Latin

Noun

somnus m ‎(genitive somnī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “somnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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