English

Noun

lampas ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lampases)

1. A type of luxury fabric with a background weft.

Translations

Etymology 2

French lampas.

Alternative forms

• lampers

Noun

lampas ‎(uncountable)

1. An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the palate immediately behind the foreteeth in a horse.

Anagrams

• Palmas, palmas, plasma

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.pa/

Etymology 1

Noun

lampas m ‎(uncountable)

1. (of horses) lampas

Etymology 2

Conjugated form of lamper ‎(“to quaff, to swig”).

Verb

lampas

1. second-person singular past historic of lamper

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαμπάς ‎(lampás, “lamp or flambeau”), from λάμπω ‎(lámpō), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- ‎(“glow”).

Noun

lampas f ‎(genitive lampadis); third declension

1. lamp, lantern
2. torch, flambeau
3. firebrand

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: lamp
• Dutch: lamp
• French: lampe
• Italian: lampada, lampa
• Old Portuguese: lampaa, lampada
  • Galician: lámpada
  • Portuguese: lâmpada, lampa, relâmpado, relâmpago
• Spanish: lámpara, relámpago

References

• lampas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lampas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• LAMPAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lampas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• lampas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lampas in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Swedish

Noun

lampas

1. indefinite genitive singular of lampa