somnolent
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
somnolent
sleepy; drowsy; inducing drowsiness
想睡的, 催眠的
Dissection of somnolent
somnolent = somn (sleep, dream) + olent (=-ulent, full of);
somnolent = full of sleep;
somnolent = sleepy
somno means sleep, please do not confuse with Greek root soma which means body.
Now Repeat my Dissection
somnolent = full of sleep;
somnolent = sleepy
somno means sleep, please do not confuse with Greek root soma which means body.
Important roots for this word:
somn
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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