dormant

• adj.休眠；静止；眠っている；隠されている
• n. （休眠状態の）人名；（仏語で）休眠者

PIE *drem（眠る、休息する）から。派生語源はdormant。

dormant

dormant: [14] Like dormitory and dormer, dormant comes ultimately from Latin dormīre ‘sleep’, which is related to Sanskrit drā- ‘sleep’ and Russian dremat’ ‘doze’. Dormant was borrowed from French dormant, the present participle of dormir ‘sleep’, while dormitory [15] comes from Latin dormītōrium, a derivative of the past participle of dormīre. Dormer [16], from Old French dormeor, a derivative of dormir, originally signified a ‘dormitory window’. (It is not clear whether dormouse [15] is related, but if it is it would mean literally ‘sleeping mouse’, or conceivably even ‘sleeper’, from French dormeuse, the feminine of dormeur ‘sleeper’.)
=> dormer, dormitory

dormant (adj.)

late 14c., "fixed in place," from Old French dormant (12c.), present participle of dormir "to sleep," from Latin dormire "to sleep," from PIE root *drem- "to sleep" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic dremati "to sleep, doze," Greek edrathon "I slept," Sanskrit drati "sleeps"). Meaning "in a resting situation" (in heraldry) is from c. 1500. Meaning "sleeping' is from 1620s.

1. The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated.

ウイルスは活性化されるまで神経組織に潜伏している。

2.During the winter the seeds lie dormant in the soil.

冬の種子は土壌中で休眠する。

3.Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.

冬には多くの動物が睡眠状態にある。

4.Many living things are dormant in winter.

多くの生物は冬になると休眠する。

5.The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.

休眠期は、この植物生活史のもう一つの段階である。