Definition - Numen - The Latin Lexicon - An Online Latin Dictionary

Orthography ID = 2028313

I don't know this word, but don't make a flashcard!

I don't know this word, and I want a flashcard!

I know this word. Hide it from now on.

There's something wrong with this entry.

See the complete paradigm.

LNS

indormiō, indormīre, indormīvī, indormītus

in, dormio

verb (4^th conjugation)

to sleep or fall asleep at, on, over
to be asleep, to be numb, torpid
to go to sleep over, to do it negligently, be careless about

Abbreviations

in-dormio, īvi, ītum, 4, v. n., to sleep or fall asleep at, on, or over a thing; constr. with dat., with in, or with abl. (class. only in the trop. signif.). Lit.: congestis undique saccis Indormis, Hor. S. 1, 1, 71: unctis cubilibus, id. Epod. 5, 69: alienis amplexibus, Petr. 79.

— Transf., to be asleep, i. e. to be numb, torpid, of a limb, Veg. Vet. 3, 23, 15; 5, 46, 2.

— Trop., to go to sleep over a thing, i. e. to do it negligently, be careless about. With in: in isto homine colendo tam indormivi diu, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, 2.

— With dat.: tantae causae, id. Phil. 2, 12, 30: longae desidiae, Plin. Ep. 1, 2, 3: malis, heedless, regardless of, Curt. 6, 10, 6.