somnium

Meaning

1. (declension-2, neuter) dream, vision
2. (declension-2, neuter) fantasy, daydream

Concepts

dream

😴💭

fancy

nonsense

vision

fantasy

foolish nonesense

Maya

adream

daydream

day-dream

foolishness

a dream

Synonyms

nox

🌃

insomnium

somniāre

quies

phantasia

simulacrum

Translations

rêve

😴💭

sogno

😴💭

sueño

😴

sonho

😴💭

Traum

😴💭

songe

😴💭

droom

😴💭

όνειρο

somni

😴💭

rüya

😴💭

düş

😴💭

αγάπη

fantasia

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈsɔm.ni.ũː]

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *swopnjom, derived from the root of somnus (“sleep”); possibly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *swópniom, from the root *swep- (“to sleep”).
Cognate with Sanskrit स्वप्न्यम् (svápnyam, “vision in a dream”), Lithuanian sapnỹs (“sleep, dream”), Old Church Slavonic съниѥ (sŭnije, “dream”), and Tocharian B sänmetse (“in a trance”).
By surface analysis, somnus (“sleep”) + -ium (nominal derivational suffix).