Lamia

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

English

Proper noun

Lamia

1. A city in Greece.

Translations

city in Greece

• French: Lamia (fr)
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• Greek: Λαμία (el) (Lamía)

Anagrams

• Malia, ilama, malai, malia

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French

Proper noun

Lamia ?

1. Lamia

Anagrams

• maila, lamai

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.a/, [ˈɫ̪ämiä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.mi.a/, [ˈläːmiä]

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.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lamia
Genitive	Lamiae
Dative	Lamiae
Accusative	Lamiam
Ablative	Lamiā
Vocative	Lamia

Derived terms

• Lamiānus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Proper noun

Lamia f sg (genitive Lamiae); first declension

1. A city of Phthiotis situated on a plain

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	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