insomnia

insomnia

See also: insómnia and insômnia

English

Etymology

From Latin in- (“without”) +‎ somnus (“sleep”, noun) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

insomnia (countable and uncountable, plural insomnias)

1. A sleeping disorder that is known for its symptoms of unrest and the inability to sleep.

Synonyms

• sleeplessness

Antonyms

• hypersomnia

Hyponyms

• big eye (Antarctica)

Derived terms

• insomniac

Translations

sleeping disorder

Arabic: أَرَق‎ m (ʾaraq) Armenian: անքնություն (hy) (ankʿnutʿyun) Aromanian: nisomn n Azerbaijani: yuxusuzluq (az) Belarusian: бяссо́нніца f (bjassónnica), бе́ссань f (bjéssanʹ) Bulgarian: безсъ́ние (bg) n (bezsǎ́nie) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: insomni m Chinese: Cantonese: 失眠 (sat1 min4), 失眠症 (sat1 min4 zing3) Hakka: 失眠 (sṳt-min) Mandarin: 失眠 (zh) (shīmián) Min Nan: 失眠 (zh-min-nan) (sit-bîn), 無眠 (zh-min-nan), 无眠 (bô-bîn) Czech: nespavost f Danish: søvnløshed (da) c Dutch: slapeloosheid (nl) f Esperanto: sendormeco Estonian: unetus Faroese: andvekur m, svøvnloysi n Finnish: unettomuus (fi) French: insomnie (fr) f Galician: insomnio (gl) m Georgian: უძილობა (uʒiloba) German: Schlaflosigkeit (de) f Greek: αϋπνία (el) f (aÿpnía) Ancient: ἀϋπνία f (aüpnía) Gujarati: અનિદ્રા (anidrā) Hebrew: נְדוּדֵי שֵׁנָה‎ (he) Hindi: अनिद्रा (hi) (anidrā) Hungarian: álmatlanság (hu) Icelandic: svefnleysi (is) n, andvaka (is) f Interlingue: ínsomnie Irish: neamhchodladh m Italian: insonnia (it) f

Japanese: 不眠 (ja) (ふみん, fumin), 不眠症 (ふみんしょう, fuminshō) Khmer: អនិទ្រា (km) (a’ni’trie) Korean: 불면증 (ko) (bulmyeonjeung) (不眠症 (ko)) Latvian: bezmiegs m Lithuanian: nemiga f Macedonian: несоница f (nesonica) Norwegian: Bokmål: søvnløshet m or f, søvnløyse m or f Nynorsk: søvnløyse f Novial: please add this translation if you can Occitan: insomnia f Old English: slǣplēast f Persian: بی‌خوابی‎ (fa) (bi-xâbi) Polish: bezsenność (pl) f Portuguese: insónia (pt) f, (Brazil) insônia (pt) f Romanian: insomnie (ro) f, nesomn (ro) n Russian: инсомни́я (ru) f (insomníja), бессо́нница (ru) f (bessónnica) Scottish Gaelic: bacadh-cadail m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: несаница f, бесаница f, инсомнија f Roman: nesanica (sh) f, besanica (sh) f, insomnija (sh) f Slovak: nespavosť f Slovene: nespéčnost f Spanish: insomnio (es) m Swedish: insomni, sömnlöshet (sv) Telugu: నిద్రలేమి (te) (nidralēmi) Thai: โรคนอนไม่หลับ (rôhk non mâi làp) Turkish: uykusuzluk (tr) Ukrainian: безсо́ння (uk) n (bezsónnja) Urdu: اندرا‎ (anidrā) Vietnamese: mất ngủ (vi) Volapük: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: ינסאַמניאַ‎ (insamnia)

Anagrams

• Simonian

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈsom.ni.a/, [ĩːˈsɔm.ni.a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈsom.ni.a/

Etymology 1

From insomnis +‎ -ia.

Noun

īnsomnia f (genitive īnsomniae); first declension

1. sleeplessness, insomnia

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnsomnia	īnsomniae
Genitive	īnsomniae	īnsomniārum
Dative	īnsomniae	īnsomniīs
Accusative	īnsomniam	īnsomniās
Ablative	īnsomniā	īnsomniīs
Vocative	īnsomnia	īnsomniae

Descendants

• English: insomnia
• Italian: insonnia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

īnsomnia

1. nominative neuter plural of īnsomnis
2. accusative neuter plural of īnsomnis
3. vocative neuter plural of īnsomnis

References

• insomnia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• insomnia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insomnia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette