lamia
See also: Lamia, lamía, làmia, lâmia, and łamią
English
Etymology
From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈleɪmɪə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.mi.ə/
Noun
lamia (plural lamias or lamiae)
- (Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection 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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Synonyms
- vampire
Translations
monster in mythology
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Anagrams
- Malia, ilama, malai, malia
Cebuano
Etymology
lami + -a
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: la‧mi‧a
Adjective
lamia
- exclamatory form of lami
Anagrams
- imala
Galician
Old Galician cart wheels
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A Galician cart in exposition
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).
Alternative forms
- lumia
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlamja̝/
Noun
lamia f (plural lamias)
- lamia (a monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent)
- dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus)
Etymology 2
Attested from 1371. From Old Galician, undocumented in Old Portuguese proper; from Latin lāmina (“plate”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlamja̝/
Noun
lamia f (plural lamias)
- iron rim or tyre of a cart's wheel
- Synonyms: canterla, ferra, palmela
- plate
- 1371, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 434:
- Demays lançaron lámeas trauesas grandes de ferro enna porta do dito thesouro con clauos que passauan da outra parte, en tal maneyra, que os enssarraron enno dito thesouro; et en todo aquel dia non les leixaron dar nen auer pan, nen vino, nen outra vianda nihua
- And also they nailed large crossed iron plates on that treasury's door, with nails that pierced through the door, so that they were shut up in the mentioned treasury; and throughout that day they didn't let them have bread, nor wine, nor any other viand whatsoever
- Demays lançaron lámeas trauesas grandes de ferro enna porta do dito thesouro con clauos que passauan da outra parte, en tal maneyra, que os enssarraron enno dito thesouro; et en todo aquel dia non les leixaron dar nen auer pan, nen vino, nen outra vianda nihua
- Synonym: lámina
- 1371, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 434:
References
- “lámea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “lamia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “lamia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “lamia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. lamia.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈla.mja/
- Rhymes: -amja
- Hyphenation: là‧mia
Etymology 1
From Byzantine Greek λάμια n pl (lámia, “deep openings”).
Noun
lamia f (plural lamie)
- (southern Italy, architecture) a type of vault used in rustic buildings
Etymology 2
From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).
Alternative forms
- lammia (archaic)
Noun
lamia f (plural lamie) (uncommon)
- witch
- Synonyms: fattucchiera, megera, strega
- fairy, enchantress
- Synonyms: fata, incantatrice
- nymph
- Synonym: ninfa
Etymology 3
From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek λάμια (lámia).
Noun
lamia f (plural lamie)
- vernacular name of several species of fish:
- (Tuscan) Synonym of canesca (“school shark”)
- (Sicily) Synonym of rana pescatrice (“anglerfish”)
- (Liguria) Synonym of bandiera rossa (“red bandfish”)
Further reading
- lamia1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- lamia2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- lamia3 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- malia
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λάμια (lámia), Λάμια (Lámia).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/, [ˈɫ̪ämiä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/, [ˈläːmiä]
Noun
lamia f (genitive lamiae); first declension
- witch who was said to suck children's blood (sort of female bogeyman), vampiress
- a sorceress, enchantress, witch
- Synonyms: strīga, malefica, volātica, masca
- a sort of flatfish
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lamia | lamiae |
| Genitive | lamiae | lamiārum |
| Dative | lamiae | lamiīs |
| Accusative | lamiam | lamiās |
| Ablative | lamiā | lamiīs |
| Vocative | lamia | lamiae |
Derived terms
- lamium (“deadnettle”)
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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