lamina

See also: Lamina, laminá, lámina, làmina, and lâmina

Contents

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of material”)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæm.ɪ.nə/

Noun

lamina (plural laminas or laminae)

1. a very thin layer of material

   Synonym: sheet

2. (anatomy) a thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra
3. (botany) the flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade

   Synonym: blade

4. (geology) a fine layer that occurs in sedimentary rocks

Derived terms

• laminal
• laminar
• laminate
• laminectomy
• laminiferous
• laminotomy

 

Translations

very thin layer of material

• Greek: έλασμα (el) n (élasma)
• Hungarian: lemez (hu)

• Latin: lāmina f
• Romanian: lamină (ro) f

(anatomy) thin plate or scale

• Greek: φολίδα (el) f (folída)

• Romanian: lamină (ro) f

(botany) flat part of a leaf

• Catalan: limbe m
• Estonian: lehelaba (et)
• Finnish: lehtilapa (fi)
• Greek: πέταλο (el) n (pétalo)

• Hungarian: levéllemez
• Romanian: lamină (ro) f
• Spanish: limbo (es) m

fine layer that occurs in sedimentary rocks

• Japanese: 葉層 (ようそう, yōsō)

Anagrams

• Almain, Animal, Malian, Manila, Milana, al-Amin, aminal, animal, maalin, manila

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French

Verb

lamina

1. third-person singular past historic of laminer

Anagrams

• animal

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of material”). Doublet of lama, a borrowing from French.

Noun

lamina f (plural lamine)

1. thin sheet or layer; lamina
2. (botany) lamina, blade
3. (anatomy) lamina

Derived terms

• lamina d'oro (“gold leaf”)

Verb

lamina

1. third-person singular present indicative of laminare
2. second-person singular imperative of laminare

Anagrams

• Manila

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Latin

Alternative forms

• lammina, lamna

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *stelh₃- (“broad, to broaden”). See lātus, latus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.mi.na/

Noun

lāmina f (genitive lāminae); first declension

1. a thin piece or sheet of metal, wood, marble, etc., a plate, leaf, layer
2. red-hot plates used as torture devices
3. money, coin, gold, precious metal
4. saw (cutting device)
5. flap of the ear
6. tender shell of an unripe nut

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lāmina	lāminae
Genitive	lāminae	lāminārum
Dative	lāminae	lāminīs
Accusative	lāminam	lāminās
Ablative	lāminā	lāminīs
Vocative	lāmina	lāminae

Derived terms

• lāmella
• lamnula

 

Descendants

• → English: lamina
• French: lame
• Friulian: lame
• Galician: lamia, lámina
• Greek: λάμα (láma)
• Italian: lamina, lama
• Portuguese: lâmina
• Romanian: lamură, lamină, lamă
• Romansch: loma, lama
• Sicilian: lanna
• Spanish: lámina
• Venetian: lama

References

• lamina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lamina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lamina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lamina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

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Malay

Noun

lamina (plural lamina-lamina, informal first-person possessive laminaku, informal second-person possessive laminamu, third-person possessive laminanya)

1. coat of mail

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Portuguese

Verb

lamina

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of laminar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of laminar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈmina/

Verb

lamina

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of laminar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of laminar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of laminar.