Thursday, July 20, 2023

A Word For Thursday




Somnolent

 

I thought of the word while musing

by my open window.

Sleeping off and on,

hearing wind chimes,

that elegance given on a little breeze.

The heat of our gentle summer

wrapping and lingering on

my dreaming heart.

I will write again

one of these days.




somnolent (adj.)



"sleepy, lethargic, drowsy, inclined to sleep," mid-15c., sompnolent, from Old French sompnolent, somnolent (Modern French somnolent) and directly from Latin somnolentus (in Medieval Latin also sompnolentus) "sleepy, drowsy," from somnus "sleep" (from PIE root *swep- "to sleep"). Respelled 17c. on Latin model; for the -p-, compare solemn.




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