lamina

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

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

• French: lame (fr) f, lamelle (fr) f
• 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/, [ˈɫ̪aː.mɪ.n̪a]

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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 1st possessive laminaku, impolite 2nd possessive laminamu, 3rd 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.