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Λάμια
Λάμια
Ancient Greek
Noun
Λᾰ́μῐᾰ • (Lámia) f (genitive Λᾰμῐ́ης); first declension
- (mythology) A fabulous monster said to feed on man's flesh; bugbear with which to frighten children
- Duris 17 J.
Inflection
Descendants
- Latin: lamia
References
- Λάμιᾰ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Λάμια in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
λάμια
λάμια
Ancient Greek
Noun
λᾰ́μῐᾰ • (lámia) f (genitive λᾰμῐ́ης); first declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ λᾰ́μῐᾰ | τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ | αἱ λᾰ́μῐαι | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς λᾰμῐ́ης | τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν | τῶν λᾰμῐῶν | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ λᾰμῐ́ῃ | τοῖν λᾰμῐ́αιν | ταῖς λᾰμῐ́αις | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν λᾰ́μῐᾰν | τὼ λᾰμῐ́ᾱ | τᾱ̀ς λᾰμῐ́ᾱς | ||||||||||
Vocative | λᾰ́μῐᾰ | λᾰμῐ́ᾱ | λᾰ́μῐαι | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, 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