λάμια
See also: Λάμια and Λαμία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possible connection with λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lá.mi.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
Noun
λᾰ́μῐᾰ • (lámia) f (genitive λᾰμῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- Species of fierce shark
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.5
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.727
- 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 9.78
Inflection
First declension of ἡ λᾰ́μῐᾰ; τῆς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λᾰ́μῐᾰ hē lámia | τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ lamíā | αἱ λᾰ́μῐαι hai lámiai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tês lamíās | τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν toîn lamíain | τῶν λᾰμῐῶν tôn lamiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λᾰμῐ́ᾳ têi lamíāi | τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν toîn lamíain | ταῖς λᾰμῐ́αις taîs lamíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λᾰ́μῐᾰν tḕn lámian | τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ lamíā | τᾱ̀ς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s lamíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰ́μῐᾰ lámia | λᾰμῐ́ᾱ lamíā | λᾰ́μῐαι lámiai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: lamia
References
- Λάμιᾰ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λάμια in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften