lamia

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

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lamia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪmɪə/

Noun

lamia (plural lamias or lamiae)

1. (Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

     Apollonius […] by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia, and that all her furniture was like Tantalus' gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions.

Synonyms

• vampire

Translations

monster in mythology

• Basque: lamia
• Catalan: làmia (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拉米亞／拉米亚 (zh)

• Czech: lamia
• Dutch: lamia
• Estonian: lamia (et)
• Finnish: lamia (fi)
• French: lamie (fr) f
• German: Lamia
• Greek: Λάμια (el) (Lámia)
• Italian: lamia (it)
• Japanese: ラミアー
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 라미아 (ramia)
• Latin: lamia
• Lithuanian: lamija
• Norwegian: lamia
• Polish: lamia
• Portuguese: lâmia (pt) f
• Russian: ламия f (lamija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: lamija

• Slovene: lamija
• Spanish: lamia
• Swedish: lamia

Anagrams

• Malia, ilama, malai, malia

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Cebuano

Etymology

lami +‎ -a

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la‧mi‧a

Adjective

lamia

1. exclamatory form of lami

Anagrams

• imala

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Galician

Old Galician cart wheels

A Galician cart in exposition

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlamja̝/

Noun

lamia f (plural lamias)

1. lamia (a monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent)
2. dusky shark ()

Etymology 2

Attested from 1371. From Old Galician, undocumented in Old Portuguese proper; from Latin lāmina (“plate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlamja̝/

Noun

lamia f (plural lamias)

1. iron rim or tyre of a cart's wheel

   Synonyms: canterla, ferra, palmela

2. plate
   • 1371, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra. Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 434:

     Demays lançaron lámeas trauesas grandes de ferro enna porta do dito thesouro con clauos que passauan da outra parte, en tal maneyra, que os enssarraron enno dito thesouro; et en todo aquel dia non les leixaron dar nen auer pan, nen vino, nen outra vianda nihua

     And also they nailed large crossed iron plates on that treasury's door, with nails that pierced through the door, so that they were shut up in the mentioned treasury; and throughout that day they didn't let them have bread, nor wine, nor any other viand whatsoever

   Synonym: lámina

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “lámea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lamia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lamia f (genitive lamiae); first declension

1. witch who was said to suck children's blood (sort of female bogeyman)
2. a sorceress, enchantress, witch
3. sort of flatfish
4. species of owl

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lamia	lamiae
Genitive	lamiae	lamiārum
Dative	lamiae	lamiīs
Accusative	lamiam	lamiās
Ablative	lamiā	lamiīs
Vocative	lamia	lamiae

Usage notes

• Elsewhere used to refer to a type of flatfish and a type of owl.

References

• “lamia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lamia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lamia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lamia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lamia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “lamia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lamia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “lamia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly