noun, masculine/sɔ.mɛj/plural: sommeils
sleep
Related: apnée du sommeil, avoir sommeil, dormir du sommeil du juste, tomber de sommeil
Inherited from Old French sumeil, from Vulgar Latin *somniclum < *somniculum, from Latin somnus (“sleep”) + -culus (diminutive suffix), from Proto-Italic *swepnos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.