different between lemures vs lemurs

English

Etymology

From Latin lemur?s. See lemur.

Noun

lemures pl (plural only)

1. The spirits or ghosts of the dead in the Roman mythology, considered as troublesome unless exorcised or appeased.

Anagrams

• relumes

Latin

Etymology

According to de Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek ????? (Lamía), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le.mu.re?s/, [????m??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.mu.res/, [?l??mu??s]

Noun

lemur?s m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension

1. shades, ghosts of the departed
2. ghosts, spectres

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Descendants

• English: lemur, lemures

References

• lemures in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 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 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)?^[1], 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

English

Noun

lemurs

1. plural of lemur

Anagrams

• Sumler

Swedish

Noun

lemurs

1. indefinite genitive singular of lemur