lemures

== English == === Etymology === From Latin lemurēs. See lemur. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlɛmjəriːz/ === Noun === lemures pl (plural only) (Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant. Coordinate term: Lares ==== Related terms ==== lemur Lemuria === Further reading === lemures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “lemures”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === relumes == Latin == === Etymology === According to De Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek Λᾰ́μῐᾰ (Lắmĭă), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫɛ.mʊ.reːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɛː.mu.res] === Noun === lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension (Roman mythology) shades, ghosts of the departed (mythology) ghosts, spectres ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun, plural only. ==== Descendants ==== English: lemur, lemures French: lémur, lémure Portuguese: lémure ==== See also ==== phasma === References === “lemures”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “lemures”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “lemures”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “lemures”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray “lemures”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 411