somnolence

Borrowed from Middle French somnolence, from Late Latin somnolentia, derived from Latin somnus (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos (“sleep, slumber”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑm.nə.ləns/

somnolence (usually uncountable, plural somnolences)

1. A state of drowsiness or sleepiness.

• hypersomnia

Borrowed from Late Latin somnolentia, derived from Latin somnus (“sleep”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔm.nɔ.lɑ̃s/

somnolence f (plural somnolences)

1. sleepiness, drowsiness
   • 1912, Pierre Loti, Un pèlerin d'Angkor:

     Et puis, surtout, midi approche, avec sa lassitude, avec son invincible somnolence.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• somnolent

• → English: somnolence
  • → Finnish: somnolenssi
• → Romanian: somnolență

• “somnolence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.