| dorm-, dormi- (Latin: sleep, sleeping).dorm: An abbreviated form for dormitory.
 dormant, dormancy: 1. Lying asleep or as if asleep;  inactive.  2. Latent but capable of being activated. 3. Temporarily quiescent. 4. In a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes; a state in which viable seeds, spores or buds fail to germinate even under favorable conditions. dormer: 1. A sleeping chamber, dormitory.  2. A resting place; a repository. dormeuse: 1. A travelling-carriage adapted for sleeping.  2. A hood or nightcap. 3. A kind of couch or settee. dormient: Sleeping, dormant.
 dormifacient: Bringing about sleep or aiding in attaining sleep; a dormifacient agent.
 dormious: Sleepy.
 dormitary: 1. Causing sleep, dormitive.  2. A sleep-producing medicine; a narcotic. dormitation: 1. Sleeping, falling asleep, drowsiness.  2. Numbness; loss of sensibility. dormition: Sleeping; falling asleep; figuratively, death (of the righteous).
 dormitive: 1. Causing sleep; soporific.  2. A soporific medicine; a narcotic. dormitory: 1. A room providing sleeping quarters for a number of people.  2. A building for housing a number of people, as at a school or resort for sleeping and shelter. dormouse: Any of various small, squirrellike Old World rodents of the family Gliridae; a family that contains about twenty species of small arboreal nocturnal rodents that feed mostly on fruit, seeds, and insects; many hibernate during the winter. Dormice are noted for their hibernation practices. From Anglo-Norman dormeus, inclined to sleep, hibernating, from Old French dormir, to sleep.
 obdormition: 1. A falling asleep, or the condition of being asleep.  2. Numbness of a limb, etc. due to pressure on a nerve; the condition of being "asleep". |