adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
somnīculōsus
somnīculōsus (feminine somnīculōsa, neuter somnīculōsum, adverb somnīculōsē)
Classical[sɔm.niː.kʊˈɫoː.sʊs]Ecclesiastical[som.ni.kuˈlɔː.s̬us]
Meaning
- adjectivesleepy, drowsy
somnīculōsōs ille porrigit glīrēs
This one offers sleepy dormouses86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 3.58.36 (choliambic meter) - adjectivesluggish, slothful
- adjectivemaking sleepy, drowsy or sluggish
- adjectivedeadly
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
semper dormīre volēnssomniculōsus -a -um — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 21
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | somnīculōsus | somnīculōsa | somnīculōsum |
| genitive | somnīculōsī | somnīculōsae | somnīculōsī |
| dative | somnīculōsō | somnīculōsae | somnīculōsō |
| accusative | somnīculōsum | somnīculōsam | somnīculōsum |
| ablative | somnīculōsō | somnīculōsā | somnīculōsō |
| vocative | somnīculōse | somnīculōsa | somnīculōsum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | somnīculōsī | somnīculōsae | somnīculōsa |
| genitive | somnīculōsōrum | somnīculōsārum | somnīculōsōrum |
| dative | somnīculōsīs | somnīculōsīs | somnīculōsīs |
| accusative | somnīculōsōs | somnīculōsās | somnīculōsa |
| ablative | somnīculōsīs | somnīculōsīs | somnīculōsīs |
| vocative | somnīculōsī | somnīculōsae | somnīculōsa |
somnĭcŭlōsus, a, um, adj. somnus,
I. full of sleep, i. e.
I. Pass., inclined to sleep, drowsy, dozy, sleepy, sluggish, slothful (rare but class.; cf.
sopitus): quae vitia non sunt senectutis, sed inertis, ignavae, somniculosae senectutis, Cic. Sen. 11, 36: villicus, Col. 11, 1, 13: genus mancipiorum (with socors), id. 1, 8, 2: glires, Mart. 3, 58, 36: Etesiae, Sen. Q. N. 5, 11, 1.—II. Act., making sleepy, drowsy, or sluggish: aspis, i. e. causing torpor or numbness, palsying, deadly (cf. somnifer and somnificus), Cinna ap. Gell. 9, 12, 12; Laber. ap. Non. 172, 30 (Com. Fragm. 86 Rib.).—Adv.: somnĭ-cŭlōsē (acc. to I.), sleepily, lazily, sluggishly:
persequi eri imperia, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 75: agere aliquid, id. Capt. 2, 1, 31.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
somnīculōsus adj.
somniculus, dim. of somnus, inclined to sleep, drowsy, sleepy, sluggish : senectus.
Origins
From somniculus (“little sleep”) + -ōsus (“full of”). Vowel length altered after febrīculōsus.
Descendants
- Italiansonnacchioso
- Englishsomniculous
- Portuguesesoniculoso