The corpus record — Latin

obdormio

obdormio · v. n

a., to fall asleep

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Where it lives

De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ob-dormĭo — Lewis & Short

ob-dormĭo, īvi or ii, ītum, 4, v. n. and

I a., to fall asleep (class.): ebrium obdormivisse, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 116: Endymion nescio quando in Latmo obdormivit, Cic. Tusc. 1, 38, 92: sub taxo, Plin. 16, 10, 20, § 51: quem obdormire volumus, Cels. 3, 18: Atiam obdormisse, Suet. Aug. 94: nepetam substernere obdormituris utile est, Plin. 20, 14, 56, § 158 (Jan, eo dormituris).—

B Esp., to fall asleep in death (eccl. Lat.): obdormivit in Domino, Vulg. Act. 7, 59.—

II Act. (anteclass.): omnem obdormivi crapulam, have slept off all my debauch, Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 1.

In the wild

obdormiat Celsus, De Medicina 4.28
obdormivit Petronius, Satyricon 86
obdormisse Suetonius, Divus Augustus 94.4
obdormisset Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.6.p1
obdormissemus Plautus, Rudens 2.7
obdormivit Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.92

6 of 14 attestations shown.

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.