The story
- Latin · derived fromsomnus“sleep”
- English todayparasomnia
From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + Latin somnus (“sleep”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsomnus all →
somnolencesomn-somnambulantsomnambulationsomnambulismsomnambulizesomnifacientsomniloquacioussomniloquoussomnipathysomnivolent
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.