“sleep” in Latin

somnus (natural, healthy sleep): sopor (a heavy sleep unnatural, as of persons intoxicated, sick, or weary): quies (sleep considered as repose, rest from exertion). A sound, deep sleep, gravis or artus somnus; artus et gravis somnus. I am seized or overcome with sleep, somnus me opprimit; somno opprimor. To fall into a deep sleep, arte et graviter dormire coepisse; arto somno opprimi; arto et gravi somno opprimi: to cause sleep, somnum facere, gignere, afferre, conciliare, concitare, or arcessere: to endeavor to get some sleep, somnum quaerere, allicere, or moliri: to drive away sleep, somnum fugare or auferre; somnum adimere or avertere: to be overcome with sleep, somno vinci. I have not been able to get a wink of sleep all night, somnum ego hac nocte oculis non vidi meis (Ter., Heaut., 3, 1, 82). I get no sleep at night, noctem insomnis ago (I am unable to sleep); but ☞ noctem pervigilo means,” I do not attempt to go to sleep all night”). If I could but get some sleep, ego si somnum capere possem. I cannot get any sleep after I have been once awaked, ego somnum interruptum recuperare non possum. To arouse out of sleep, e somno excitare or expergefacere: to awake from sleep, expergiscere: expergefieri; somno solvi. In or during sleep, per somnum; per quietem; in somno; somno; dormiens: to put or lull to sleep, sopire, consopire; alicui somnum afferre, parere, conciliare (PROP.); securum, or lentum, or negligentem reddere or facere (figuratively). To go to sleep (PROP.), obdormire: obdormiscere (also = to die gently): somnum capere (to take sleep): somno opprimi (to be overcome with sleep). I go to sleep, somnus me arripit (against my inclination, Justinus, 11, 13, 1). To have gone to sleep, somno sopitum esse: to have fallen into a deep sleep, arte et graviter dormitare coepisse: to go to sleep again, somnum repetere: to go to sleep at or over a thing, indormire alicui rei; obdormiscere in re (e.g., in mediis vitae laboribus, Cic., Tusc., 1, 49, 117, there = to die). To go to sleep (figuratively), torpescere: refrigescere (to grow cold): in oblivionem ire or adduci (to fall into oblivion): industriam remittere (to abate one’s diligence). To have gone to sleep (i. e., to be forgotten), jacere; in oblivione jacere; oblivione obrutum esse; oblitteratum esse.

PROP., dormire (geneeral term): dormitare (to be in a deep sleep): quiescere (to be at rest after exertion): somnum capere (to fall asleep). To prevent anybody from sleeping, aliquem somno prohibere. To cause anybody to sleep, sopire: consopire: alicui somnum afferre, parere, conciliare. To sleep soundly, arte et graviter dormire (☞ altum dormire is poetical). To sleep sweetly, sine omni cura dormire; dormire in utramvis aurem otiose: to sleep but little, minimum dormire (on a single occasion, Plin., Ep. 3, 5, 11): brevissimi esse somni or brevissimo somno uti (habitually, Suet., Claud., 33; Sen., Ep., 83, 6; but ☞ parcissimi esse somni is a false reading in Plin., Ep. 3, 5, 3, for erat somni paratissimi). To sleep or have slept enough, somno, or quiete, satiari. To sleep upon anything (i. e., to take a night to consider of it), noctem sibi sumere ad deliberandam rem, or simply ad deliberandum: to sleep off or away (i. e., to get rid of by sleeping), edormire (e.g., vinum, crapulam). To sleep through, edormire (e.g., Ilionam edormire; i. e., to sleep through the part he should be acting).

Figuratively, securum, lentum or negligentem esse; dormitare. To sleep over a business, indormire alicui rei (Cic.), also in aliqua re faciendā (e.g., in homine colendo, Cic.). to sleep away, edormire aliquid (e.g., tempus). Vid: also, SLEEP, s.