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Somnolent: Sleepy or tending to cause sleep. "Somnolent" came from French. It descends from the Latin "somnus" meaning "sleep." Also descended from "somnus" are "somnambulism" (sleepwalking) and "insomnia" (the inability to sleep.)
Definition of SOMNOLENT. 1: of a kind likely to induce sleep <a somnolent sermon> 2. a: inclined to or heavy with sleep : drowsy b: sleepy 2 < somnolent rivers>
adjective 1. sleepy; drowsy. 2. tending to cause sleep. Origin: 1425–75; late Middle English sompnolent < Old French < Latin somnolentus, derivative of somnus sleep ...
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som·no·lent (s m n-l nt) adj. 1. Drowsy; sleepy. 2. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific. [Middle English sompnolent, from Old French, from Latin ...
Drowsy or sleepy. · (dated) Causing literal or figurative sleepiness; soporific · French: drowsy (inclined to drowse)