The corpus record — Latin

edormisco

to sleep out

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k

What it meant

ēdormisco — Lewis & Short

ēdormisco, ĕre,

I v. inch. a. [edormio], to sleep out, to sleep off a debauch (perh. only in the foll. passages): crapulam, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 28: hoc villi, Ter. Ad. 5, 2, 11: unum somnum, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 65.

In the wild

edormiscam Plautus, Rudens 2.7
edormiscat Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2
edormiscam Terence, Adelphi 5.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.