dorm-, dormi- +
(Latin: sleep, sleeping)
condorm
To sleep together.
dorm
An abbreviated form for dormitory.
dormant, dormancy
1. Lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive.
2. Latent but capable of being activated.
3. Temporarily quiescent.
4. In a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes.
5. A state in which viable seeds, spores, or buds fail to germinate even under favorable conditions.
dormer
1. A sleeping chamber, dormitory.
2. A resting place; a repository.
dormeuse
1. A travelling-carriage adapted for sleeping.
2. A hood or nightcap.
3. A kind of couch or settee.
dormient
Sleeping, dormant.
dormifacient
Bringing about sleep or aiding in attaining sleep; a dormifacient agent.
dormious
Sleepy.
dormitary
1. Causing sleep, dormitive.
2. A sleep-producing medicine; a narcotic.
dormitation
1. Sleeping, falling asleep, drowsiness.
2. Numbness; loss of sensibility.
dormition
Sleeping; falling asleep; figuratively, death (of the righteous).
dormitive
1. Causing sleep; soporific.
2. A soporific medicine; a narcotic.
dormitory
1. A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of people.
2. A building for housing a number of people, as at a school or resort for sleeping and shelter.
dormouse
Any of various small, squirrellike Old World rodents of the family Gliridae; a family that contains about twenty species of small
arboreal and
nocturnal rodents that feed mostly on fruit, seeds, and insects; many hibernate during the winter.
Dormice are noted for their hibernation practices.
From Anglo-Norman dormeus, inclined to sleep, hibernating, from Old French dormir, to sleep.
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.
Pseudo Latin: Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
Motto and coat of arms at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and magic in the Harry Potter stories.
Related "sleep" units:
hypno-;
letho-;
narco-;
oneiro- (dream);
somni-;
sopor-.