oneiro-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Forms: 1600s 1900s– oniro-, 1600s– oneiro-. Before a vowel oneir-.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Greek ὀνειρο-, ὄνειρος.

Etymology: < ancient Greek ὀνειρο-, combining form (in e.g. ὀνειρόμαντις (see oneiromantist n. ), ὀνειροπόλος : see oneiropolist n.) of ὄνειρος dream ( < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ὄναρ, Armenian anowrǰ, and perhaps also Albanian ëndërr, all in sense ‘dream’).Earliest in oneirocritical adj., formed on a Greek base. Formations within English are found from the 17th cent. (as oneiromancy n., oneirocritic n.).

oneirodynia n.

Brit.

/ə(ʊ)ˌnʌɪrə(ʊ)ˈdɪnɪə/

U.S.

/oʊˌnaɪrəˈdɪniə/

/oʊˌnaɪroʊˈdɪniə/

[ < oneiro- comb. form + -odynia comb. form, after post-classical Latin oneirodynia (1780 in the passage translated in quot. 1800); compare French onéirodynie (1795)] disturbed sleep, including that in which nightmares and sleepwalking occur.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > disturbed or broken

oneirodynia1800

sleep-disturbance1822

1800 tr. W. Cullen Nosology 134 Oneirodynia, inflamed or disturbed imagination during sleep.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 58 He [sc. Parr]..makes vesania the genus, and arranges melancholia, mania, and even oneirodynia, as separate species under it.

1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Oct. vii. 33/1 When he writes of Indians having a collective dream about the Nehrus and the Gandhis..he tells us that Indians have a habit of lapsing into ‘oneirodynia’.

† oneiromantist n. [compare ancient Greek ὀνειρόμαντις] Obsolete rare = oneiromancer n.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > study or interpretation of > one who studies or interprets

dream readera1387

dream doctor1545

dream interpreter?1611

dream-tellera1641

oneirocritica1652

dream-speller1652

oneiropolist1652

oneiromancer1653

oneiromantist1653

oneirocrite1693

oneirologist1834

oneiroscopist1889

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > interpretation of dreams > [noun] > one who practises

readerOE

dream readera1387

conjectora1425