Etymology

somnambulant

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Today it means: Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking. Full definition →

Latin somnus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsomnus“sleep”
  2. English todaysomnambulant

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”) + -ant.

Words from the same roots

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