lamium

See also: Lamium

Latin

Etymology

Unknown; sometimes linked to lamia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.mi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.mi.um]

Noun

lamium n (genitive lamiī or lamī); second declension

1. deadnettle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lamium	lamia
genitive	lamiī lamī1	lamiōrum
dative	lamiō	lamiīs
accusative	lamium	lamia
ablative	lamiō	lamiīs
vocative	lamium	lamia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Translingual: Lamium

Further reading

• “lamium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lamium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “lamium”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 339a