sopite

English

Etymology

Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire (“to put to sleep”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /səˈpaɪt/

Verb

sopite (third-person singular simple present sopites, present participle sopiting, simple past and past participle sopited)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To put to sleep; to quiet.
    • 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:
      ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
      The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sopite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

sopite

  1. inflection of sopire:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

sopite f pl

  1. feminine plural of sopito

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

sōpīte

  1. vocative masculine singular of sōpītus
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