dormer

See also: Dormer

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɹmɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːmə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

dormer (1, in blue) with dormer-window (2, in white)

From Middle French dormoir (“sleeping room”), from dormir (“to sleep”).

Noun

dormer (plural dormers)

1. (architecture) A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.
   • 1904 May, Winston Churchill, “The Strange City”, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 371:

     Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof.

2. (architecture) Ellipsis of dormer-window..

Derived terms

• dormered
• dormer window

 

Translations

roofed projection

• Catalan: llucana f
• Czech: vikýř (cs)
• Danish: kvist (da) c
• Dutch: dakkapel (nl) m or f
• Faroese: kvistur m
• Finnish: kattolyhty
• German: Dachgaube (de) f
• Icelandic: kvistur (is) m
• Italian: abbaìno
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ark (no) m, kvist m

  Nynorsk: ark (nn) f, kvist m

dormer-window — see dormer-window

Etymology 2

From dorm +‎ -er.

Noun

dormer (plural dormers)

1. (Philippines) A resident of a dormitory.
   • 2004, mae, edited by Reginald Ting, True Philippine Ghost Stories #8: Spooky Dorm‎^[1], Psicom Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 38:

     My dorm mates and I had a little get-together in our room on the second floor. We were just talking and weren't making much noise when we heard a knock on our door. It was a dormer from the room directly below us. She asked if we were cleaning and we told her that we weren't. She left but came back a little while later and asked the same question again. We asked her if our matron wants us to clean up. The dormer said no and left. But after a few minutes, she came up again and again asked if we were cleaning our room because she could hear the noise down in her room.

Anagrams

• remord

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin dormīre.

Verb

dormer (second person singular present duarmi, past participle dormait)

1. to sleep

Conjugation

    Conjugation of dormer

infinitive			dormer
gerund			dormendo
past participle			dormait
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ju	te	jal/jala	nu	vu	jali/jale
	present	duarmo	duarmi	dormaja	dormaime	dormaite	dormaja
	imperfect	dormaja	dormaja	dormaja	dormajaite	dormajaite	dormaja
	perfect	jai dormait	ji dormait	ju dormait	jaime dormait	jaite dormait	ju dormait
	pluperfect	avas dormait	avai dormait	avas dormait	avajaime dormait	avajaite dormait	avas dormait
	future	dormera	dormere	dormera	dormerme	dormerte	dormera
	conditional	dormere	dormere	dormere	dormerme	dormerte	dormere
subjunctive		ju	te	jal/jala	nu	vu	jali/jale
	present	dormaja	dormaja	dormaja	dormaime	dormaite	dormaja
	imperfect	dormis	dormisse	dormissa	dormissaime	dormissaite	dormis
imperative		—	te	—	nu	vu	—
	affirmative		duarmi		dormaime	dormaite
	negative		naun duarmi		naun dormaime	naun dormaite