somnific

[ som-nif-ik, suhm- ]
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adjective
  1. causing sleep; soporific; somniferous.

Origin of somnific

1
1715–25; <Latin somnificus causing sleep, equivalent to somni-, combining form of somnus sleep + -ficus-fic

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