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lamia

See also: Lamia, lamía, làmia, lâmia, and łamią

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Etymology

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

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lamia (plural lamias or lamiae)

  1. (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: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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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Cebuano

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Etymology

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lami +‎ -a

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  • Hyphenation: la‧mi‧a

Adjective

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lamia

  1. exclamatory form of lami

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Galician

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Old Galician cart wheels
 
A Galician cart in exposition

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

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lamia f (plural lamias)

  1. 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)
  2. dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus)

Etymology 2

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Attested from 1371. From Old Galician-Portuguese (albeit not documented in Portugal); from Latin lāmina (“plate”).[1]

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lamia f (plural lamias)

  1. iron rim or tyre of a cart's wheel
    Synonyms: canterla, ferra, palmela
  2. plate
    Synonym: lámina
    • 1371, A. López Ferreiro, editor, 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

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

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈla.mja/
  • Rhymes: -amja
  • Hyphenation: là‧mia

Etymology 1

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From Byzantine Greek λάμια n pl (lámia, “deep openings”).

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lamia f (plural lamie)

  1. (southern Italy, architecture) a type of vault used in rustic buildings

Etymology 2

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

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lamia f (plural lamie) (uncommon)

  1. witch
    Synonyms: fattucchiera, megera, strega
  2. fairy, enchantress
    Synonyms: fata, incantatrice
  3. nymph
    Synonym: ninfa

Etymology 3

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From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek λάμια (lámia).

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lamia f (plural lamie)

  1. vernacular name of several species of fish:
    1. (Tuscan) Synonym of canesca (“school shark”)
    2. (Sicily) Synonym of rana pescatrice (“anglerfish”)
    3. (Liguria) Synonym of bandiera rossa (“red bandfish”)

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  • 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

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek λάμια (lámia), Λάμια (Lámia).

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lamia f (genitive lamiae); first declension

  1. witch who was said to suck children's blood (sort of female bogeyman), vampiress
  2. a sorceress, enchantress, witch
    Synonyms: strīga, malefica, volātica, masca
  3. a sort of flatfish

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lamia lamiae
genitive lamiae lamiārum
dative lamiae lamiīs
accusative lamiam lamiās
ablative lamiā lamiīs
vocative lamia lamiae

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Descendants

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  • → Translingual: lamia (used in names of fish)
  • → English: lamia (learned)
  • → Galician: lamia (learned)
  • → Italian: lamia (learned)

References

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  • “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[1]
  • “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 and Roman 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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