different between sleeping vs somnolent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sli?p??/
• Rhymes: -i?p??

Verb

sleeping

1. present participle of sleep

Adjective

sleeping (not comparable)

1. Asleep.
2. Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sleeping (countable and uncountable, plural sleepings)

1. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
   • c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, I:

     And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.

Translations

Anagrams

• peelings, speeling

French

Noun

sleeping m (plural sleepings)

1. sleeping car

Synonyms

• wagon-lit

Further reading

• “sleeping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

First attested in 1615. Borrowed from French somnolent, from Old French sompnolent, subsequently from Latin somnolentus, from somnus (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *supnós (“dream”), which both are derived from *swep-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?mn?l?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??mn?l?nt/

Adjective

somnolent (comparative more somnolent, superlative most somnolent)

1. Drowsy or sleepy.
2. (dated) Causing literal or figurative sleepiness.

   Synonyms: soporific; see also Thesaurus:soporific

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin somnolentus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /som.no?lent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /sum.nu?len/

Adjective

somnolent (feminine somnolenta, masculine plural somnolents, feminine plural somnolentes)

1. sleepy, drowsy

Related terms

• somni
• somnolència
• son

Further reading

• “somnolent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Old French sompnolent, borrowed from Latin somnolentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m.n?.l??/

Adjective

somnolent (feminine singular somnolente, masculine plural somnolents, feminine plural somnolentes)

1. drowsy (inclined to drowse)

Verb

somnolent

1. third-person plural present indicative of somnoler
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of somnoler

Further reading

• “somnolent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French somnolent, from Latin somnolentus.

Adjective

somnolent m or n (feminine singular somnolent?, masculine plural somnolen?i, feminine and neuter plural somnolente)

1. sleepy

Declension