lemures
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin lemurēs. See lemur.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈlɛmjəriːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editlemures pl (plural only)
- (Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
- Coordinate term: Lares
- 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
- The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.
- 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 13:
- So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- lemures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “lemures”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editAccording to de Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈle.mu.reːs/, [ˈɫ̪ɛmʊreːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.mu.res/, [ˈlɛːmures]
Noun
editlemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | lemurēs |
Genitive | lemurum |
Dative | lemuribus |
Accusative | lemurēs |
Ablative | lemuribus |
Vocative | lemurēs |
Descendants
editSee also
editReferences
edit- “lemures”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lemures in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lemures”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lemures”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “lemures”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press
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