Etymology

somnific

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Today it means: Causing sleep; somniferous. Full definition →

Latin somnificus
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  1. Latin · derived fromsomnificus
  2. English todaysomnific

From Latin somnificus, from somnus (“sleep”) + facere (“to make”). By surface analysis, somn- + -ific.

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