Lemuria
See also: Lemúria
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ləˈmjuːɹi.ə/
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Lemuria
- (historical) A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.
Derived terms
Translations
Religious feast of Ancient Rome
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Lemuria
- (mythology) A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
hypothetical island in the Indian Ocean
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From lemurēs (“ghosts of the departed”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫɛˈmuː.ri.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [leˈmuː.ri.a]
Proper noun
Lemūria n pl (genitive Lemūriōrum or Lemūrium); variously declined, second declension, third declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter) or third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Lemūria |
| genitive | Lemūriōrum Lemūrium |
| dative | Lemūriīs Lemūribus |
| accusative | Lemūria |
| ablative | Lemūriīs Lemūribus |
| vocative | Lemūria |
References
- “Lĕmūrĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Lemuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Lĕmūrĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 898/3.
- “Lemūria” on page 1,015/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Further reading
- lemuria (festival) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia