Where does “soporific” come from?

Soporific comes from French soporifique, from Latin sopor meaning sleep, from Proto-Indo-European swep- meaning to sleep.

soporific (English): Something inducing sleep, especially a drug;...

Definitions

  1. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug;...

Ancestry of “soporific”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsoporifiquesoporific; a soporific
2LatinsopōrA deep sleep, sopor; sleep (in general), slumber; catalepsy
3Proto-Indo-Europeanswepōr—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanswep-to sleep

Words derived from “soporific”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European swep- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European swepōr →Every word from Latin sopōr →