The story
- Latin · derived fromsomnus“sleep”
- English todaysomnambulation
From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulatio (“a walking about”), from ambulare (“to walk”). See somnolent, amble.
Words from the same roots
Latinsomnus all →
somnolenceparasomniasomn-somnambulantsomnambulismsomnambulizesomnifacientsomniloquacioussomniloquoussomnipathysomnivolent
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.