Somnus
pronunciation
How to pronounce Somnus in British English:
UK ['sɔmnəs]
How to pronounce Somnus in American English:
US ['sɒmnəs]
Word Origin
- Somnus (n.)
- "sleep personified; the god of sleep in Roman mythology," equivalent of Greek Hypnos, son of Night and brother of Death, 1590s, from Latin somnus "sleep, drowsiness," from PIE *swep-no-, from root *swep- (1) "to sleep" (cognates: Sanskrit svapnah, Avestan kvafna-, Greek hypnos, Lithuanian sapnas, Old Church Slavonic sunu, Old Irish suan, Welsh hun "sleep," Latin sopor "a deep sleep," Old English swefn, Old Norse svefn "a dream").
Example
- 1. Conclusion : The decrease of the somnus quality is always occurred in patients with hypertension preliminary diagnosed , that is often complicaten with mental health abnormality .
- 2. Chronic fatigue syndrome ( CFS ) is a kind of general syndrome under the contemporary fast tempo mode of live with the serial of chronic fatigue syndromes such as the degression in impermanent memory or attention , pharyngalgia , lymphadenectasis or haphalgesia in cervical part or under armpit , courbature , multi-articular soreness without red swelling of the skin , cephalalgia , somnus unable to recover from fatigue , postexercise defatigation exceeding to 24 hours .
- 3. AMI group had clearly higher scores in harmful dietetically habits , monotonous amateur life , lacking physical exercises , having a liking for cigarette and drinking and somnus unregulation of life style ( P < 0.01 ) .