Λάμια
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, from λαμυρός (lamurós, “avaricious, voracious, coquettish”), a Pre-Greek word probably related to λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”).[1] Others[2][3][4] suggest a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”) that was ultimately borrowed from a substrate language such as Etruscan or Anatolian. Compare Latin lemures (“ghosts of the departed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (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
[edit]Λᾰ́μῐᾰ • (Lắmĭă) f (genitive Λᾰμῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Lamia, a fabulous monster said to feed on man's flesh
- a bugbear with which to frighten children; bogeyman
- Duris 17 J.
Inflection
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: lamia (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λαμυρός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 830
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press
Further reading
[edit]- “Λάμιᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Λάμια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from substrate languages
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Etruscan
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Anatolian languages
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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