lêmure
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin lemures (“the ghosts of the dead”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: lê‧mu‧re
Noun edit
lêmure m (plural lêmures) (Brazilian spelling)
- (Roman mythology) lemures (spirits or ghosts of the dead)
- lemur (strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea)