Lemuriaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Latin Lemuria.

固有名詞

Lemuria

1. (historical) A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.

派生語

• Lemurian

語源 2

lemur +‎ -ia

固有名詞

Lemuria

1. (mythology) A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.

等位語

派生語

• Lemurian

アナグラム

• Rumelia, uramile

Latin

語源

From lemurēs (“ghosts of the departed”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leˈmuː.ri.a/, [ɫ̪ɛˈmuːriä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /leˈmu.ri.a/, [leˈmuːriä]

固有名詞

Lemūria n pl (variously declined, genitive Lemūriōrum または Lemūrium); second declension, third declension

1. The festival of Lemurēs (spirits, ghosts)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter) or third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

参照

• “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.