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somnia

somnia is a Latin form of somnium, meaning “dream”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

It can also be a form of somnio, “dream (of)”.

Found 101 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.42: Exposui fere non philosophorum iudicia sed delirantium somnia. Nec enim multo absurdiora sunt ea quae poetarum vocibus fusa ipsa suavitate nocuerunt, qui et ira inflammato …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.9.4: … nes esse appellatas; Varronem quoque versum hunc Plauti de Menaechmis: Nihilo minus esse videtur sectius quam sómnia, sic enarrasse: nihilo magis narranda esse quam si ea essent somnia. Haec illi inter se certabant.

All forms of somnium (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.