# dormio
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run, sleep”).
Cognates include Old Church Slavonic дрѣмати (drěmati, “to drowse, doze”), Russian дрема́ть (dremátʹ), Sanskrit द्राति (drāti, “to sleep”), Ancient Greek δαρθάνω (darthánō, “I sleep”).

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

dormiō (present infinitive dormīre, perfect active dormīvī or dormiī, supine dormītum); fourth conjugation, impersonal in the passive
* 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 dormīreIn 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)

#### Related terms

* addormiō
* adormīscō
* condormiō
* condormīscō
* dormīscō
* dormītō
* ēdormiō
* ēdormīscō
* indormiō
* obdormīscō
* perdormīscō
* redormiō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: dormu
** Istro-Romanian: durmi
** Megleno-Romanian: dorm
** Romanian: dormi, durmi — regional
* Dalmatian:
** dormir
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: dorma, dorme
    Gallurese: drummí
** Italian: dormire
** Neapolitan: dormire
** Sassarese: drummí
** Sicilian: dòrmiri, durmiri
* Padanian:
** Friulian: durmî
** Ladin: dormir, dormí
** Lombard: dormì, durmì, dòrmer
** Piedmontese: deurme, durmì, drumì
** Romagnol: durmì
** Romansch: durmir, durmeir (Surmiran)
** Venetan: dormir
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: dormir
** Franco-Provençal: dormir, dromir
** Old French: dormir
*** Middle French: dormir
**** French: dormir
*** Norman: dormi
*** Walloon: doirmi
** Old Occitan: dormir
*** Occitan: dormir
    Auvergnat: dromir
    Gascon: dromir, dròmer
    Limousin: durmir
    Vivaro-Alpine: durmir
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: dormir
** Old Leonese: [Term?]
*** Asturian: dormir
*** Leonese: dormire
*** Mirandese: drumir
** Old Galician-Portuguese: dormir, durmir
*** Galician: durmir, dormir
*** Portuguese: dormir (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: dormir
*** Ladino: durmir
*** Spanish: dormir
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: dormire, dormiri, drommire, drumire
* Borrowings:
** → Icelandic: dorma

### References

* “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, 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
* ↑ “dormire” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN