Lamia

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

English

Proper noun

Lamia

1. A city in Greece.

Translations

city in Greece

• Albanian: Lami f (indefinite), Lamia f (definite)
• Aromanian: Lãmii f, Lãmie f (indefinite), Lãmia f (definite)
• French: Lamia (fr)
• Greek: Λαμία (el) f (Lamía)

Anagrams

• Malia, ilama, malai, malia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.mja/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Proper noun

Lamia f

1. Lamia (a city in Greece)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic لَمْيَاء (lamyāʔ).

Proper noun

Lamia f

1. a female given name from Arabic

Anagrams

• maila, lamai

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, Greece, 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