dormir

• adormir, durmir

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

• IPA^(key): /doɾˈmiɾ/ [d̪oɾˈmiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: dor‧mir

dormir (first-person singular indicative present dormo, past participle dormíu)

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• “dormir”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “dormir”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [durˈmi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [doɾˈmiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

dormir (first-person singular present dormo, first-person singular preterite dormí, past participle dormit); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• “dormir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dormir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dormir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dormir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• dromir (ORB)

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir (ORB, broad)

1. to sleep

• dormir in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• dormir in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French dormir, from Old French dormir, from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

• IPA^(key): /dɔʁ.miʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   Synonym: pioncer

   Hyponyms: faire la sieste, faire un somme, sommeiller, somnoler, siester

   Vous devriez essayer de dormir. ― You should try to sleep.

   Je dormais quand vous avez appelé. ― I was sleeping when you called.

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and servir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) dors and (il) dort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *dormis and *dormit (as in the past historic).

• → Belizean Creole: doado

• se coucher
• sommeil

• “dormir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

dormir (first-person singular present durmo, third-person singular present dorme, first-person singular preterite dormim or dormi, past participle dormido, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of durmir

• “dormir”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• dormí

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

dormir (Hebrew spelling דורמיר)^[1]

1. alternative form of durmir
   • 2012 October 1, Miriam Moscona, Tela de Sevoya, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 39:

     Dio santo, los ojos apretados me dejan komo en la trupa de bestia, kontando animales para poeder dormir.

     Good Lord, the shy eyes abandon me like to a pack of beasts, telling animals stop being able to sleep.

Inherited from Old French dormir, from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• French: dormir

• dòrmer, dourmir (Mistralian spelling)

Inherited from Old Occitan dormir, from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

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dormir (Languedoc)

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 249

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: dormir
  • French: dormir
• Norman: dormi
• Walloon: doirmi

• durmir

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir m

1. sleep
   • 13th century, Paio Soares de Taveirós, Qvantꝰ aquj deſpanha ſon; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 149:

     Qvantꝰ aquj deſpanha ſon
     todꝰ perderom o dormir
     con gran ſabor que am deſſir
     mais eu nũca ſono perdi
     deſquando deſpanha ſay
     ca mhyo perdera ia enton

     How many here are from Spain, that have lost their sleep over their great urge to leave? I have never lost my sleep since I have left Spain, because I have lost it there already.

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep (rest)
   • 1390, [Miragres de Santiago]; republished as José Luís Pensado Tomé, editor, Os miragres de Santiago: versión gallega del códice latino del siglo XII, atribuído al papa Calisto II, 1958:

     […] et Ferragudo ouve sono et deitouse a dormir […]

     And Ferragudo felt sleepy and went to bed.

     (literally, “And Ferragudo had sleepness and lay down sleeping.”)

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “dormir”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “dormir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “dormir”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “dormir”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

• Occitan: dormir

  Auvergnat: dromir

  Gascon: dromir, dròmer

  Limousin: durmir

  Vivaro-Alpine: durmir

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “dormīre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 140

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep (rest)

• Ladino: dormir, durmir, דורמיר
• Spanish: dormir

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “dormir”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 199

• dromir (dialectal)
• drumir, drumi, dromi, dormi, durmi (pronunciation spelling)
• durmir (obsolete or eye dialect)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dormir, from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

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• Hyphenation: dor‧mir

dormir (first-person singular present durmo, third-person singular present dorme, first-person singular preterite dormi, past participle dormido)

2. (intransitive) to sleep; to be asleep (to rest in a state of reduced consciousness)

   O gato está a dormir/dormindo.

   The cat is sleeping.

4. (intransitive) to fall asleep (to become asleep)

   Demorou horas até que eu dormisse.

   Hours passed before I fell asleep.

6. (transitive) to have a given type of sleep

   Dormir uma soneca.

   To have a nap.

8. (figurative, intransitive) to sleep (to be temporarily inactive)

   A célula dos terroristas está a dormir/dormindo.

   The terrorist cell is asleep.

10. (intransitive, euphemistic) to sleep with (to have sex with) [with com ‘someone’]

    Apanhei-a a dormir/dormindo com um rapaz.

    I caught her sleeping with a boy.

12. (intransitive, figurative) to be constantly [with com ‘with someone’]

    A memória da guerra dorme com o veterano.

    The memory of the war sleeps with the veteran.

14. (poetic, intransitive) to be dead

    Todos (os) meus heróis dormem.

    All my heroes are dead.

16. (informal, of a limb, intransitive) to fall asleep (to temporarily lose blood circulation)

    Acordei no meio da noite e (o) meu braço tinha dormido.

    I woke up in the middle of the night and my arm had fallen asleep.

18. (Brazil, slang, intransitive) not to notice a problem

    O controlador dormiu e os aviões bateram.

    The controller didn’t pay attention and the aeroplanes collided.

19. (Brazil, Minas Gerais, colloquial) to spend the night

    A luz dormiu acesa.

    The light spent the night turned on.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dormir.

• dormitório

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: durmi
• Kabuverdianu: durmi
• Macanese: durmí
• Papiamentu: drumi

• “dormir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “dormir”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “dormir” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “dormir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “dormir”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “dormir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish dormir, from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

• IPA^(key): /doɾˈmiɾ/ [d̪oɾˈmiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: dor‧mir

dormir (first-person singular present duermo, first-person singular preterite dormí, past participle dormido)

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   Duermo muy bien todas las noches.

   I sleep very well every night.

2. (reflexive) to fall asleep

   ¿En qué piensas mientras te duermes?

   What do you think of while you fall asleep?

3. (reflexive) to sleep in

   ¿Qué hora es? ¡Me he dormido!

   What time is it? I've overslept!

4. (euphemistic) to die; to rest in death

   Y así la reina durmió para siempre.

   And so rested the queen for forever.

5. (transitive) to put to sleep (someone or something)

   Los durmió a todos usando un hechizo.

   He put them all to sleep by using a spell.

6. (euphemistic, medicine) to anesthetize

   Solo un médico puede dormir a un paciente.

   Only a doctor can anesthetize a patient.

7. (euphemistic, medicine) to euthanize, to put down (mainly for pets but also people)

   Ayer por la tarde durmieron a mi gato.

   Yesterday evening my cat was put to sleep.

• “dormir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Latin dormīre, from Proto-Italic *dormjō, from Proto-Indo-European *dr̥m-yé-ti, from *drem- (“to sleep”).

dormir

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   Synonyms: momir, polegiar

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* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.