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語源

From Latin lemurēs. See lemur.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɛmjəriːz/

名詞

lemures pl (plural only)

1. (Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.

   Coordinate term: Lares

   • 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

     The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.

   • 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 13:

     So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.

関連する語

• lemur
• Lemuria

Further reading

• lemures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “lemures”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• relumes

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈle.mu.reːs/, [ˈɫ̪ɛmʊreːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.mu.res/, [ˈlɛːmures]

名詞

lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension

1. (Roman mythology) shades, ghosts of the departed
2. (mythology) ghosts, spectres

語形変化

Third-declension noun, plural only.

派生した語

• English: lemur, lemures
• French: lémur, lémure
• Portuguese: lémure

参考

• phasma

参照

• “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., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press