Word Origin Summary

Somnolentia is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• somnolență

  Romanian · borrowed from

• somnolencia

  Spanish · borrowed from

• somnolence

  French · borrowed from

• sonolência

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• sonnolenza

  Italian · inherited from

• somnolenssi

  Finnish · derived from

• somnolence

  English · derived from

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