somniculosus

== Latin == === Etymology === From somniculus (“little sleep”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”). Vowel length altered after febrīculōsus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɔm.niː.kʊˈɫoː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [som.ni.kuˈlɔː.s̬us] === Adjective === somnīculōsus (feminine somnīculōsa, neuter somnīculōsum, adverb somnīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective sleepy, drowsy sluggish, slothful (active notion) making sleepy, drowsy or sluggish deadly ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: sonnacchioso → English: somniculous → Portuguese: soniculoso === References === “somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “somniculosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. somniculosus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung