somnium

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *swopnjom, derived from the root of somnus (“sleep”); possibly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *swópn-yo-m, from the root *swep- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्वप्न्यम् (svápnyam, “vision in a dream”), Lithuanian sapnỹs (“sleep, dream”), Old Church Slavonic съниѥ (sŭnije, “dream”), Tocharian B sänmetse (“in a trance”). By surface analysis, somnus (“sleep”) +‎ -ium (nominal derivational suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɔm.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsɔm.ni.um] === Noun === somnium n (genitive somniī or somnī); second declension dream, vision fantasy, daydream ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “somnium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “somnium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "somnium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “somnium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.