lamia

See also: Lamia, lamía, làmia, and lâmia

English

Etymology

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈleɪmɪə/

Noun

lamia (plural lamias or lamiae)

  1. A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , III.2.1.i:
      Apollonius […] by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia, and that all her furniture was like Tantalus' gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions.

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Galician

Old Galician cart wheels
A Galician cart in exposition

Etymology 1

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlamja̝/

Noun

lamia f (plural lamias)

  1. lamia (a monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent)
  2. dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus)

Etymology 2

From Latin lāmina (“plate”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlamja̝/

Noun

lamia f (plural lamias)

  1. iron rim or tyre of a cart's wheel
    Synonyms: canterla, ferra, palmela

References

  1. ↑ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. lamia.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/, [ˈɫa.mi.a]

Noun

lamia f (genitive lamiae); first declension

  1. witch who was said to suck children's blood (sort of female bogeyman), a sorceress, enchantress
  2. sort of flatfish
  3. species of owl

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative lamia lamiae
genitive lamiae lamiārum
dative lamiae lamiīs
accusative lamiam lamiās
ablative lamiā lamiīs
vocative lamia lamiae

Usage notes

  • Elsewhere used to refer to a type of flatfish and a type of owl.

References

  • lamia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lamia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lamia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • lamia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • lamia in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • lamia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lamia in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • lamia in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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