Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Neil Gaiman

Etymology English Link to heading

• “to have a dream or dreams, be partly and confusedly aware of images and thoughts during sleep,”

• “see in a dream”

• “think about idly, vainly, or fancifully; give way to visionary expectation” to dream up “picture (something) in one’s mind”

• “sing, rejoice, play music,”

• “sequence of sensations or images passing through the mind of a sleeping person,”

• “merriment, noise,”

• “deception, illusion, phantasm”

• “to deceive, delude,”

• “ghost, apparition” druh- “seek to harm, injure,”

• ruz- “lie, deceive.”

• “joy, mirth, noisy merriment,” also “music.”

• “sleeping vision,”

• “vision”

• “that which is presented to the mind by the imaginative faculty, though not in sleep”

• “ideal or aspiration”

• “something of dream-like beauty or charm”

Etymologie Deutsch Link to heading

• “einen Traum, Träume haben, sich Wunsch-, Phantasievorstellungen hingeben,”

• “im Schlaf auftretende Vorstellung, sehnlicher Wunsch,”

• “nicht wirkliches Bild, Trugbild”

• “Erscheinung, Trugbild”

• “trügen, listig schädigen”

Etimología Español Link to heading

La palabra sueño viene del latiín somnus, la misma palabra que nos dio sonámbulo.

Étymologie Française Link to heading

• “combinaison plus ou moins confuse de faits imaginaires qui se présente spontanément à l’esprit pendant le sommeil”
• “projet sans fondement, idée chimérique”
• “ce qu’une personne se représente par l’imagination et à quoi elle aspire de toutes ses forces”

Morpheus Link to heading

name for the god of dreams in Ovid, son of Sleep, literally “the maker of shapes,” from Greek morphē “form, shape, figure,” especially “a fine figure, a beautiful form; beauty, fashion, outward appearance,” a word of uncertain etymology. Related: Morphean. Morphō was an epithet of Aphrodite at Sparta, literally “shapely.”

morph- Link to heading

as a noun, in biology, “genetic variant of an animal,” 1955; Related: Morphed; morphing. Earlier it was a slang shortening of morphine (1912).

eu- Link to heading

word-forming element, in modern use meaning “good, well,” from Greek eus “good,” eu “well” (adv.), also “luckily, happily” (opposed to kakos), as a noun, “the right, the good cause,” from PIE *(e)su- “good” (source also of Sanskrit su- “good,” Avestan hu- “good”), originally a suffixed form of root *es- “to be.” In compounds the Greek word had more a sense of “greatness, abundance, prosperity,” and was opposed to dys-.

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