dormio

From Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run, sleep”).^[1][2]

Cognates include Old Church Slavonic дрѣмати (drěmati, “to drowse, doze”), Russian дрема́ть (dremátʹ), Sanskrit द्राति (drāti, “to sleep”), Ancient Greek δαρθάνω (darthánō, “I sleep”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdor.mi.oː/, [ˈd̪ɔrmioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdor.mi.o/, [ˈd̪ɔrmio]

dormiō (present infinitive dormīre, perfect active dormīvī or dormiī, supine dormītum); fourth conjugation, no passive

1. to sleep

   Synonyms: dormītō, cubō

   Antonyms: expergīscor, vigilō

   Eō dormītum.

   I'm going to sleep.

   Dormītūrī tē salūtant.

   Those (we) who are about to sleep salute you.

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5:

     Nōbīs cum semel occidit brevis lūx, nox est perpetua ūna dormienda.

     When the brief light has set on us, we must sleep one eternal night.

   • 65 BCE – 8 BCE, Horace, Sermones 2.1.7:

     vērum nequeō dormīre

     In truth, I can't sleep.

   • 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 24:27:

     parum inquam dormiēs modicum dormitābis pauxillum manūs cōnserēs ut quiēscās

     Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.

     (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)

• “dormio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dormio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dormio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    
  • to sleep soundly (from fatigue): arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
    
  • to sleep on into the morning: in lucem dormire