hypnotic
noun/hɪpˈnɒtɪk/
/hɪpˈnɑːtɪk/
(specialist)- a drug that makes you sleep; a sleeping pillWord Originearly 17th cent.: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’, from hupnos ‘sleep’.
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