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lemures

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See also: lémures and lêmures

English

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Etymology

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From Latin lemurēs. See lemur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lemures pl (plural only)

  1. (Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
    Coordinate term: Lares
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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According to de Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (ghost, nocturnal spirit).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension

  1. (Roman mythology) shades, ghosts of the departed
  2. (mythology) ghosts, spectres

Declension

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Third-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative lemurēs
genitive lemurum
dative lemuribus
accusative lemurēs
ablative lemuribus
vocative lemurēs

Descendants

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  • English: lemur, lemures
  • French: lémur, lémure

See also

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References

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  • lemures”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lemures in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • lemures”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lemures”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • lemures”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • 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
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  • Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press