dormouse

Signification (Anglais)

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).

Concepts

loir

muscardin

lérot

lérotin

myoxidae

myoxidés

Synonymes

edible

mole

sleeper

field-mouse

fat dormouse

hazel mouse

loir

hazel-mouse

Traductions

lirón

ghiro

liró

hazelmuis

relmuis

arganaz

Bilch

moscardino

glis

Siebenschläfer

Schlafmaus

Haselmaus

δασομυωξός

greule

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈdɔɹmaʊs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: dormous

Appartenant à Anglo-Norman: -

Appartenant à ancien français: 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.