Etymology

somnifacient

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Today it means: Inducing or causing sleep. Full definition →

Latin somnus
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The story

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

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + facio (“to make”).

Words from the same roots

Latinsomnus all →

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