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lamia
[ ley-mee-uh ]
noun
plural lamias, lamiae
- Classical Mythology. one of a class of fabulous monsters, commonly represented with the head and breast of a woman and the body of a serpent, said to allure youths and children in order to suck their blood.
- a vampire; a female demon.
- (initial capital letter, italics) a narrative poem (1819) by John Keats.
lamia
/ ˈ±ô±ðɪ³¾ÉªÉ™ /
noun
- classical myth one of a class of female monsters depicted with a snake's body and a woman's head and breasts
- a vampire or sorceress
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lamia1
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek ±ôá³¾¾±²¹ a female man-eater
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lamia1
C14: via Latin from Greek Lamia
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But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.
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The Seventy, in Isaiah, translate the Hebrew lilith by lamia.
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There, on one of the broadest tombstones she saw sitting a circle of lamias.
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Why," returned Calandrino, "'tis not to go farther, but there is a damsel below, fairer than a lamia, and so mightily in love with me that 'twould astonish thee.
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The word lamiae signified, walking spirits, which, according to the vulgar notion, devoured men; this makes the spirit of the sarcasm against the tax-gatherers.
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