adormecer

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese adormecer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin addormīscere, present active infinitive of addormīscō.

• IPA^(key): [aðoɾmeˈθeɾ], (western) [aðoɾmeˈseɾ]

adormecer (first-person singular present adormezo, first-person singular preterite adormecín, past participle adormecido)

1. (intransitive) to fall asleep

• “adormecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “adormecer” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “adormecer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “adormecer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “adormecer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin addormīscere, present active infinitive of addormīscō.

• IPA^(key): /a.doɾ.me.ˈt͡seɾ/

adormecer

1. to fall asleep (to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 7 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.

     This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

• dormir

• Galician: adormecer
• Portuguese: adormecer

From Old Portuguese adormecer, from Latin addormīscere.

adormecer (first-person singular present adormeço, first-person singular preterite adormeci, past participle adormecido)

1. (intransitive) to fall asleep (to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep)

   Não consegui adormecer. ― I couldn't fall asleep.

   Synonym: (Brazil, informal) cair no sono

2. (intransitive) to oversleep
3. (transitive) to send somebody to sleep, to lull to sleep

   Synonyms: acalentar, fazer dormir

4. (transitive, medicine) to anesthetize
5. (transitive, figuratively) to soothe, to relieve

   Synonym: aliviar

• adormecido

• dormir

From Latin addormīscere, present active infinitive of addormīscō.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /adoɾmeˈθeɾ/ [a.ð̞oɾ.meˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /adoɾmeˈseɾ/ [a.ð̞oɾ.meˈseɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: a‧dor‧me‧cer

adormecer (first-person singular present adormezco, first-person singular preterite adormecí, past participle adormecido)

1. (transitive) to make sleepy, to lull
2. (transitive) to make numb
3. (reflexive) to go to sleep, or doze off
4. (reflexive) to go numb (part of the body)

• adormecedor
• adormecimiento

• dormir
• adormecerse

• “adormecer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014