Soporific  

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  1. Something inducing sleep, especially a drug.
    The doctor prescribed a soporific to help him sleep.

Etymology

From French soporifique, from Latin sopor (“deep sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swepōr, from *swep-. Unrelated to stupor (distinct in Proto-Indo-European).

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