"asleep" in seven languages
Meaningasleep
Spanish
dormido
/dorˈmido/
inherited
Past participle of dormir.
French
endormi
/ɑ̃dɔʁmi/
inherited
Past participle of endormir 'to put to sleep', from dormir.
Italian
addormentato
/addormenˈtato/
inherited
Past participle of addormentare, a derivative of dormire.
Portuguese
adormecido
/adohmeˈsidu/
inherited
Romanian
adormit
/adorˈmit/
inherited
Catalan
adormit
/ədurˈmit/
inherited
English
asleep
/əˈslip/
native English · Old English on slæpe 'in sleep'
English → ItalianasleepaddormentatoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: dormitory, dormant, dormouse.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
DORMĪRE‘to sleep’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
English says it with a preposition (a- = 'on, in'); the sisters use a participle of a DORMĪRE verb. The same root gives English dormitory, 'the sleeping room'.
English relatives: dormitory, dormant, dormouse
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In a sentence
- esEl bebé está dormido.
- frLe bébé est endormi.
- itIl bambino è addormentato.
- ptO bebê está adormecido no berço.
- roBebelușul a adormit.
- caEl nadó està adormit.
- enThe baby is asleep.
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