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Rarely Used Words: No, 7: Hypopedia

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hypopedia 
noun
sleep learning
Quotes
Years of intesive hynopaedia and, from twelve to seventeen, Malthiean drill three times a week, had made the taking of these precautions almost as automatic and inevetable as blinking.
Origin 
Hyponpedia is first recored in Aldous Huxley's distomian novel Brave New World (1932), and the
word may well be coinage of his. Hypopedia is a compound word from the Greek nouns hy'pnos "sleep" and paidela"child-rearing, eduction". Hy'ponis is a Greek of the Proto-Indo-European noun, sup-nos, from the root swep, swop, - sup- "to sleep". In pre-classical Latin, the noun swep-nos becomes swep-nos and finally swefen"sleep, dream" in old Enlish and sweven Middle English, e.g., in Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Paideia is a derivative of noun pais(stem paid) - "child".



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