dormire

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

• IPA^(key): /dorˈmi.re/

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• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: dor‧mì‧re

dormìre (first-person singular present dòrmo, first-person singular past historic dormìi, past participle dormìto, auxiliary avére) (intransitive)

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   Synonyms: riposare, sonnecchiare

2. (intransitive, idiomatic) to be inactive, to not be doing anything, to fall asleep, to stand there and watch

   Non dormire e mettiti subito a lavoro!

   Don't fall asleep and get working immediately!

   Adesso basta dormire, facciamo qualcosa!

   Enough standing there now, let's do something [about it]!

3. (intransitive, figurative) to show no sign of life
4. (intransitive, figurative) to rest in peace

   Synonym: riposare

   dorme in pace ― rests in peace

   1. (for a dead person's body or remains) to be buried or in the tomb; to rest

      Synonyms: riposare, giacere

      Qua dormono i resti del poeta. ― Here rest the remains of the poet.

5. (transitive) to sleep through something or a lapse of time

   dormire sonni tranquilli ― to sleep serenely

   1. (figurative) To waste, to not make use of a period of time

      Synonyms: sprecare, buttare al vento

      • 1513 December 10, Niccolò Macchiavelli, Lettera a Francesco Vettori‎^[1]:

        quindici anni che io sono stato a studio dell’arte dello stato, non gli ho né dormiti né giuocati

        [the] fifteen years I've been studying the art of state, I haven't either wasted them and let them fly by nor flushed them down the drain

• rimorde

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dɔrˈmiː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [dorˈmiː.re]

dormīre

1. present active infinitive of dormiō

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

dormire

1. to sleep

• “dormire”, in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2026

• durmire, dormì, durmì (alt. spellings)

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

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [rurˈmi]

dormire

1. to sleep

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 647: “a dormire” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From dormi + -re.

dormire f (plural dormiri)

1. sleeping

• dormire in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN