lemures

From Latin lemurēs. See lemur.

lemures pl (plural only)

1. The spirits or ghosts of the dead.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.

• relumes

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈle.mu.reːs/, [ˈɫɛ.mʊ.reːs]

lemurēs m (genitive lemurum); third declension

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

Third declension.

• English: lemur, lemures

• 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill
• 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