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Insomnia

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a persistent difficulty falling or staying asleep
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Stage 1 of 2
insomnis
Latin · ancient
"sleepless"
sleepless, from in- (without) and somnus (sleep)
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Stage 2 of 2
insomnia
English · 1620s
"a persistent inability to sleep"
settled as the medical word for the inability to sleep
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