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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-213/
- Published: 2025-03-05T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-05T17:14:59.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

somnolent (adjective): 

1: of a kind likely to induce sleep

2: inclined to or heavy with sleep : drowsy

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/somnolent?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Somnolent first appeared in the late 15th century in the redundant phrase "somnolent sleep." It came into English by way of Anglo-French from the Latin word somnolentus, which itself comes from somnus, meaning "sleep." Another offspring of somnus is somnambulism, a synonym of sleepwalking. Insomnia is also a member of this sleepy word family, though it might be considered the black sheep, since it means, of course, "the inability to sleep."

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