Lamia

Lamia

1. A city in Greece.

• Malia, ilama, malai, malia

• IPA^(key): /la.mja/

Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Lamia f

1. Lamia (a city in Greece)

Borrowed from Arabic لَمْيَاء (lamyāʔ).

Lamia f

1. a female given name from Arabic

• maila, lamai

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.mi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.mi.a]

From Lamus, king of the Laestrygonians.

Lamia m sg (genitive Lamiae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Aelius Lamia, a Roman consul

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Lamiānus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Lamia f sg (genitive Lamiae); first declension

1. a city of Phthiotis, Greece, situated on a plain

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “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