dormition

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɔːˈmɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

dormition (countable and uncountable, plural dormitions)

1. The process of falling asleep.
2. (euphemistic) The process of death or the actual death itself.
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy, often capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 507:

     The Virgin had allegedly given away her robe just before her death – what is in Eastern tradition called her Dormition, or falling asleep.

Synonyms

• sleep

Related terms

• dorm
• dormant
• dormitive
• dormitory

Translations

falling asleep

• Finnish: nukahtaminen (fi)
• Hungarian: elalvás (hu), elszenderedés, elszenderülés, elszunnyadás
• Japanese: 睡眠 (ja) (suimin)

the process of death

• Finnish: kuoleminen (fi), poisnukkuminen, kuolema (fi)

the actual death

• Finnish: kuolema (fi)
• Georgian: მიძინება (miʒineba)
• Hungarian: elhunyta (hu), halál (hu)
• Japanese: 永眠 (ja) (eimin), 瞑目 (meimoku)

the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary

• Arabic: رُقَاد (ruqād)
• Finnish: kuolonuneen nukkuminen
• French: dormition (fr) f
• Georgian: მიძინება (miʒineba)
• Hungarian: elszenderedés
• Russian: успе́ние (ru) n (uspénije)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

dormition f (plural dormitions)

1. dormition

Further reading

• “dormition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.