dormiens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of dormiō (“[I] sleep”)

Participle

dormiēns (genitive dormientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. sleeping

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	dormiēns			dormientēs	dormientia
genitive	dormientis			dormientium
dative	dormientī			dormientibus
accusative	dormientem	dormiēns		dormientēs dormientīs	dormientia
ablative	dormiente dormientī1			dormientibus
vocative	dormiēns			dormientēs	dormientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “dormiens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rouse, wake some one: (e) somno excitare, dormientem excitare