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Hypnos
Hypnos
meaning
hĭp'nŏs'
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The god of sleep.
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The god of sleep, identified with the Roman Somnus.
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(Greek mythology) The
god
and
personification
of
sleep
. The
son
of
Nyx
and
Erebus
, twin brother of
Thanatos
, husband of
Pasithea
, and the father of the
Oneiroi
. His
Roman
counterpart
is
Somnus
.
pronoun
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Origin of hypnos
From Ancient Greek
Ὕπνος
(Hupnos, literally “Sleep”).
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