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somnific

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som⋅nif⋅ic

  [som-nif-ik, suhm-]
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–adjective
causing sleep; soporific; somniferous.
Origin:
1715–25; < L somnificus causing sleep, equiv. to somni-, comb. form of somnus sleep + -ficus -fic
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som·nif·er·ous   (sŏm-nĭf'ər-əs)   
adj.  Inducing sleep; soporific.
som·nif'er·ous·ly adv.
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