lemures
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English
Etymology
From Latin lemurēs. See lemur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛmjəriːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
lemures 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
Further reading
lemures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “lemures”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
According 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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈle.mu.reːs/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.mu.res/,
Noun
lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | lemurēs |
| genitive | lemurum |
| dative | lemuribus |
| accusative | lemurēs |
| ablative | lemuribus |
| vocative | lemurēs |
Descendants
See also
References
- “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), 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