λάμια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possible connection with λαιμός (laimós, “throat, gullet”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lá.mi.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈla.mi.a/
Noun
λᾰ́μῐᾰ • (lắmĭă) f (genitive λᾰμῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ λᾰ́μῐᾰ hē lắmĭă |
τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ lămĭ́ā |
αἱ λᾰ́μῐαι hai lắmĭai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tês lămĭ́ās |
τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν toîn lămĭ́ain |
τῶν λᾰμῐῶν tôn lămĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ λᾰμῐ́ᾳ tēî lămĭ́āi |
τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν toîn lămĭ́ain |
ταῖς λᾰμῐ́αις taîs lămĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν λᾰ́μῐᾰν tḕn lắmĭăn |
τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ tṑ lămĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς tā̀s lămĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λᾰ́μῐᾰ lắmĭă |
λᾰμῐ́ᾱ lămĭ́ā |
λᾰ́μῐαι lắmĭai | ||||||||||
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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