adormecer

From Latin addormīscere, present active infinitive of addormīscō.

• IPA^(key): /a.doɾ.me.ˈt͡seɾ/

adormecer

1. to fall asleep (to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 7 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como ſanta Maria liurou a Abadeſſa prenne q̇ adormecera anto ſeu Altar chorando.

     This one is about how Holy Mary acquitted the pregnant abbess who had fallen asleep crying in front of her altar.

• dormir

• Galician: adormecer
• Portuguese: adormecer

From Old Portuguese adormecer, from Latin addormīscere, present active infinitive of addormīscō.

adormecer (first-person singular present indicative adormeço, past participle adormecido)

1. (intransitive) to fall asleep (to pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep)

   Não consegui adormecer. ― I couldn't fall asleep.

2. (intransitive) to oversleep
3. (transitive) to send somebody to sleep, to lull to sleep
4. (transitive, medicine) to anesthetize
5. (transitive, figuratively) to soothe, to relieve

• (to fall asleep): cair no sono (Brazil, informal)
• (to lull): acalentar, fazer dormir
• (to soothe): aliviar

• adormecido

• dormir

From Latin addormīscere, present active infinitive of addormīscō.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /adormeˈθeɾ/, [aðormeˈθeɾ]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /adormeˈseɾ/, [aðormeˈseɾ]

adormecer (first-person singular present adormezco, first-person singular preterite adormecí, past participle adormecido)

1. to make sleepy, or lull
2. to make numb

• Rule: c becomes a zc before a or o.

• adormecedor
• adormecimiento

• dormir
• adormecerse

• “adormecer” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.