lamium

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown; sometimes linked to lamia.

Pronunciation

Noun

lamium n (genitive lamiī or lamī); second declension

  1. deadnettle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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 (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 339a
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