Hamadryas

Alternative forms

• Amādrias (Medieval)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /haˈmaː.dry.as/, [haˈmaː.drʏ.as]

Noun

Hamādryas f (genitive Hamādryados); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) a woodnymph, a hamadryad
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References

• Hamadryas in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Hămādryas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• AMADRIADES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• hamādryas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hămādry̆ădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “735/2”
• “Hamadryas” on page 785 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)