Etymology

somnambulize

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Today it means: To sleepwalk; to somnambulate. Full definition →

Latin somnus
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The story

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

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulo (“to walk”), + -ize.

Words from the same roots

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