Etymology

somnambulist

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Today it means: A person who walks about in their sleep; a sleepwalker. Full definition →

French somnambuliste ← Medieval Latin somnambulus
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The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived fromsomnambulus“sleepwalker”
  2. French · borrowed fromsomnambuliste
  3. English todaysomnambulist

Borrowed from French somnambuliste, from Medieval Latin somnambulus (“sleepwalker”). By surface analysis, somn- + -ambulist.

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