"to sleep" in seven languages
Meaningto sleep
Spanish
dormir
/doɾˈmiɾ/
inherited
French
dormir
/dɔʁmiʁ/
inherited
Italian
dormire
/dorˈmire/
inherited
Portuguese
dormir
/dohˈmih/
inherited
Romanian
dormi
/dorˈmi/
inherited
Catalan
dormir
/durˈmi/
inherited
English
sleep
/slip/
native English · Old English slǣpan
English → Italianto sleepdormireNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: dormitory, dormant.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
DORMĪRE‘to sleep’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A perfect cognate set: Latin DORMĪRE barely changed. Watch the stressed forms: Spanish duerme diphthongizes, French and Italian keep dort and dorme.
English relatives: dormitory, dormant
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In a sentence
- esEl bebé está durmiendo.
- frLe bébé dort.
- itIl bambino dorme.
- ptO bebê está dormindo.
- roBebelușul doarme.
- caEl nadó dorm.
- enThe baby is sleeping.