soporifero
Meaning
- soporific
- (figuratively, humorous) boring, tedious
Translations
Hyphenated as
so‧po‧rì‧fe‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/so.poˈri.fe.ro/
Etymology
From Latin sopōriferum, derived from sopor (“sleep”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *swep- (“to sleep”). By surface analysis, sopor(e) (“sleep”) + -ifero (“bearing”, “carrying”, adjectival derivational suffix).
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