Lamia

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See also: lamia, lamía, làmia, Làmia, lâmia, and łamią

English

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Proper noun

Lamia

  1. A city in Greece.

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French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Proper noun

Lamia f

  1. Lamia (a city in Greece)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic لَمْيَاء (lamyāʔ).

Proper noun

Lamia f

  1. a female given name from Arabic

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Lamus, king of the Laestrygonians.

Proper noun

Lamia m sg (genitive Lamiae); first declension

  1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Lucius Aelius Lamia, a Roman consul
Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Lamia
genitive Lamiae
dative Lamiae
accusative Lamiam
ablative Lamiā
vocative Lamia
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Proper noun

Lamia f sg (genitive Lamiae); first declension

  1. A city of Phthiotis, Greece, situated on a plain
Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

singular
nominative Lamia
genitive Lamiae
dative Lamiae
accusative Lamiam
ablative Lamiā
vocative Lamia
locative Lamiae

References

  • “Lamia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Lamia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “Lamia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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