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Lamia3

Lamia3 · f

A witch

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Domitianus 2 · 5.81/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 5 · 4.39/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 3 · 2.37/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 3 · 2.03/10k
Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 2 · 1.22/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lămĭa — Lewis & Short

lămĭa, ae, f., = lami/a.

I A witch who was said to suck children's blood, a sorceress, enchantress: neu pransae lamiae vivum puerum extrahat alvo, Hor. A. P. 340; App. M. 1, p. 110, 3; 5, p. 164, 6.—Transf.: lamiae turres, nursery tales, Tert. adv. Val. 3.—

II A sort of flatfish, Plin. 9, 24, 40, § 78.—

III A species of owl, Vulg. Isa. 34, 14.

2. Lămĭa — Lewis & Short

Lămĭa, ae, m.,

I a surname in the gens Aelia, Cic. Sest. 12, 29; id. Fam. 12, 29, 3; id. Att. 11, 7, 2; Hor. C. 1, 26, 8; 3, 17, 2; Juv. 4, 154; 6, 385; Tac. A. 6, 27; Suet. Dom. 1.—Hence,

II Lămĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Lamia, Lamian: horti, Cic. Att. 12, 21, 2; Suet. Calig. 59.

3. Lămĭa — Lewis & Short

Lămĭa, ae, f., = *lami/a,

I a city in Phthiotis, now Zeitun, Liv. 27, 30, 1; 32, 4, 3; Plin. 4, 7, 14, § 28.

4. lamia — Walde–Hofmann

lamia (meist Pl.), -ae f. , Vampyr, weiblicher Unhold, gefräßiger Fisch; Schakal* (seit Lucil, rom.): aus gr. Adjuo ds. (Weise, Saalfeld; s. lamium). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lamia, p. 787]

In the wild

Lamiam Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.23.9
Lamiae Horace, Carmina 1.36.7
Lamia Cicero, De Oratore 2.262
Lamia Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.45.1
Lamia Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.36.25.3
Lamiam Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 36 p21

6 of 83 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lamia (scan p. 363; entry #5699).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lamia (scan p. 787; entry #1488).

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