an article on: dormition Wikipedia Borrowed from Middle French dormition, from Latin dormītiōnem. (UK) IPA(key): /dɔːˈmɪʃ(ə)n/ dormition (countable and
Assumption, Dormition (Christian festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary to heaven) Успе́нский пост ― Uspénskij post ― Assumption/Dormition Fast Успе́нский
declension sleep, sleeping Third-declension noun. Middle French: dormition → English: dormition “dormitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A