λάμια

See also: Λάμια and Λαμία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possible connection with λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lá.mi.a/ → /ˈla.mi.a/ → /ˈla.mi.a/

• (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

1. Species of fierce shark
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.5
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.727
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 9.78

Inflection

First declension of ἡ λᾰ́μῐᾰ; τῆς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ λᾰ́μῐᾰ hē lámia	τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ lamíā	αἱ λᾰ́μῐαι hai lámiai
Genitive	τῆς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tês lamíās	τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν toîn lamíain	τῶν λᾰμῐῶν tôn lamiôn
Dative	τῇ λᾰμῐ́ᾳ têi lamíāi	τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν toîn lamíain	ταῖς λᾰμῐ́αις taîs lamíais
Accusative	τὴν λᾰ́μῐᾰν tḕn lámian	τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ lamíā	τᾱ̀ς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s lamíās
Vocative	λᾰ́μῐᾰ lámia	λᾰμῐ́ᾱ lamíā	λᾰ́μῐαι lámiai
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 Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften