dormouse

Significat (Anglès)

1. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
2. Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
3. (UK) Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
4. (figuratively) A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).

Conceptes

liró

Sinònims

edible

mole

sleeper

field-mouse

fat dormouse

hazel mouse

loir

hazel-mouse

Traduccions

lirón

loir

ghiro

hazelmuis

relmuis

arganaz

Bilch

glis

Schlafmaus

Siebenschläfer

moscardino

missara

δασομυωξός

Haselmaus

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdɔɹmaʊs/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: dormous

Cognat amb Anglo-Norman: -

Cognat amb francès antic: dormir

In summary

From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse.
The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.