The story
- Latin · derived fromsomnus“sleep”
- English todaysomniloquous
Coined based on Latin somnus (“sleep”) + loquor (“to talk”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsomnus all →
somnolenceparasomniasomn-somnambulantsomnambulationsomnambulismsomnambulizesomnifacientsomniloquacioussomnipathysomnivolent
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.