somniculosus

Latin

FWOTD – 29 September 2023

From somniculus (“little sleep”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”). Vowel length altered after febrīculōsus.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /som.niː.kuˈloː.sus/, [s̠ɔmniːkʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /som.ni.kuˈlo.sus/, [somnikuˈlɔːs̬us]

somnīculōsus (feminine somnīculōsa, neuter somnīculōsum, adverb somnīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective

sleepy, drowsy
- 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.36, (choliambic meter):
  somnīculōsōs ille porrigit glīrēs
  This one offers sleepy dormouses
sluggish, slothful
(active notion) making sleepy, drowsy or sluggish
deadly

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	somnīculōsus	somnīculōsa	somnīculōsum	somnīculōsī	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsa
genitive	somnīculōsī	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsī	somnīculōsōrum	somnīculōsārum	somnīculōsōrum
dative	somnīculōsō	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsō	somnīculōsīs
accusative	somnīculōsum	somnīculōsam	somnīculōsum	somnīculōsōs	somnīculōsās	somnīculōsa
ablative	somnīculōsō	somnīculōsā	somnīculōsō	somnīculōsīs
vocative	somnīculōse	somnīculōsa	somnīculōsum	somnīculōsī	somnīculōsae	somnīculōsa

“somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“somniculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
somniculosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
somniculosus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung