English
somnivolent
Somnivolent comes from Latin somnus ‘sleep, slumber’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *swep-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swep-‘to sleep’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*swépnos‘sleep, slumber’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsomnus‘sleep, slumber’
- Englishearliest quotation 1962somnivolent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*swep-‘to sleep’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*swépnos‘sleep, slumber’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsomnus‘sleep, slumber’
- Englishearliest quotation 1962somnivolent
Earliest quotation: 1962, Morton Wilfred Bloomfield, Piers Plowman as a fourteenth-century apocalypse: “This portion of the poem, just after the Harrowing…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *swep- ‘to sleep’
hypnosis, hypnotic, soporific, 18 more
through Latin somnus ‘sleep, slumber’
Today it means
adj Having a desire to sleep.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *swep- / somnivolent