soporate

English

Etymology

From Latin soporatus, p.p. or soporare (“to put to sleep”), from sopor (“a heavy sleep”).

Verb

soporate (third-person singular simple present soporates, present participle soporating, simple past and past participle soporated)

  1. (obsolete) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for soporate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

sopōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of sopōrō
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