dormouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.
The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
Inflected forms:
form: dormice
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doormouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
pos: noun
examples: For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
Restoration such as this must work around wildlife habitats, and NR came to discover that almost the entire line was a haven for dormice.
gloss: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: glirid
Derived words: fat dormouse
garden dormouse
Japanese dormouse
Oriental dormouse
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: gjer
lang: Armenian
word: քնամուկ
roman: kʻnamuk
lang: Asturian
word: llirón
lang: Asturian
word: llira
lang: Azerbaijani
word: süleysin
lang: Basque
word: muxar
lang: Belarusian
word: соня-палчок
roman: sonja-palčok
lang: Breton
word: lir
lang: Breton
word: hunegan
lang: Bulgarian
word: сънливец
roman: sǎnlivec
lang: Catalan
word: liró
lang: Catalan
word: rata dormidora
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 睡鼠
roman: shuìshǔ
lang: Czech
word: plch
lang: Danish
word: syvsover
lang: Danish
word: hasselmus
lang: Dutch
word: relmuis
lang: Dutch
word: hazelmuis
lang: Esperanto
word: gliro
lang: Estonian
word: kunel
lang: Faroese
word: heslimús
lang: Finnish
word: unikeko
lang: French
word: loir
lang: West-Frisian
word: sânslieper
lang: Friulian
word: glîr
lang: Galician
word: leirón
lang: Galician
word: lirio
lang: Galician
word: liranco
lang: German
word: Bilch
lang: German
word: Bilchmaus
lang: German
word: Schläfer
lang: German
word: Schlafmaus
lang: German
word: Siebenschläfer
lang: German
word: Gartenschläfer
lang: German
word: Haselmaus
lang: German
word: Haselmuus
lang: Greek
word: δασομυωξός
roman: dasomyoxós
lang: Hungarian
word: pele
lang: Icelandic
word: heslimús
lang: Irish
word: luch chodlamáin
lang: Irish
word: dallóg fhéir
lang: Italian
word: ghiro
lang: Italian
word: moscardino
lang: Italian
word: muscardinide
lang: Japanese
word: ヤマネ
roman: yamane
lang: Korean
word: 겨울잠쥐
roman: gyeouljamjwi
lang: Ladin
word: ghiro
lang: Latin
word: glīs
lang: Latin
word: nītēdula
lang: Latvian
word: susuris
lang: Lithuanian
word: miegapelė
lang: Macedonian
word: полв
roman: polv
lang: Maltese
word: ġurdien ta’ denbu pjuma
lang: Mongolian
word: унтаахай
roman: untaaxaj
lang: Norwegian
word: syvsover
lang: Norwegian
word: sovemus
lang: Occitan
word: missara
lang: Occitan
word: greule
lang: Polish
word: popielica
lang: Polish
word: pilch
lang: Portuguese
word: arganaz
lang: Romani
word: xurtso
lang: Romani
word: xurtsaika
lang: Romanian
word: pârș
lang: Romansh
word: durmigliet
lang: Romansh
word: glirida
lang: Russian
word: со́ня
roman: sónja
lang: Sardinian
word: topi de venadroxu
lang: Sardinian
word: medrona de tzirva
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dallag
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: пух
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: puh
lang: Slovak
word: plch
lang: Slovene
word: polh
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: pjelch
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: lěsna myška
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: połch
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: połšk
lang: Spanish
word: lirón
lang: Swedish
word: sjusovare
lang: Swedish
word: sovmöss
lang: Swedish
word: hasselmus
lang: Turkish
word: kakırca
lang: Turkish
word: fındık faresi
lang: Turkish
word: yediuyur
lang: Ukrainian
word: со́ня
roman: sónja
lang: Vietnamese
word: chuột sóc
lang: Welsh
word: pathew
lang: Yiddish
word: שלאָף־מויז
roman: shlof-moyz