Insomnia Suffix

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Insomnia suffix. Insomnia can be broadly defined as no sleep or not enough sleep. The prefix in means not as in insufficient not sufficient. The noun insomnia was borrowed from latin insomnis sleepless from the prefix in not plus somnus sleep somnus is actually related to greek hypnos sleep the source of english words such as hypnosis and hypnotic. Historical usage of insomniac.
Start learning this word. In somnus without sleep and ia as nominalizing suffix. Insoluble insolvable insolvency insolvency provision insolvent insomnia insomniac insomnolence insomuch insomuch as insorption. The word insomnia is from latin.
It s actually somnia which refers to sleep. An insomniac therefore is a person who suffers from the inability to sleep. Here s your latin lesson for the day. The suffix is actually somnia meaning sleep.
You cut off the suffix.