Etymology

somniloquacious

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Today it means: Talkative in one’s sleep. Full definition →

Latin somnus
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The story

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

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + loquacious.

Words from the same roots

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