lamium

See also: Lamium

Latin

Etymology

Unknown; sometimes linked to lamia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.um/, [ˈɫ̪ämiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.um/, [ˈläːmium]

Noun

lamium n (genitive lamiī or lamī); second declension

1. deadnettle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lamium	lamia
Genitive	lamiī lamī1	lamiōrum
Dative	lamiō	lamiīs
Accusative	lamium	lamia
Ablative	lamiō	lamiīs
Vocative	lamium	lamia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Translingual: Lamium

Further reading

• “lamium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lamium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “lamium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 339a