Λάμια

See also: λάμια and Λαμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from λαμυρός (lamurós, “avaricious, voracious, coquettish”), a Pre-Greek word probably related to λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”). Others suggest a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”) that was ultimately borrowed from a substrate language such as Etruscan or Anatolian. Compare Latin lemures (“ghosts of the departed”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.mi.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.a/

Noun

Λᾰ́μῐᾰ • (Lámia) f (genitive Λᾰμῐ́ᾱς); first declension

(Greek mythology) Lamia, a fabulous monster said to feed on man's flesh
a bugbear with which to frighten children
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1177
- Duris 17 J.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Λᾰ́μῐᾰ; τῆς Λᾰμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Λᾰ́μῐᾰ hē Lámia
Genitive	τῆς Λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tês Lamíās
Dative	τῇ Λᾰμῐ́ᾳ têi Lamíāi
Accusative	τὴν Λᾰ́μῐᾰν tḕn Lámian
Vocative	Λᾰ́μῐᾰ Lámia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Latin: lamia

References

“Λάμιᾰ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Λάμια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bugbear idem, page 103.
- goblin idem, page 365.
- hobgoblin idem, page 402.

^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press

[1] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

[2] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[3] 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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