lamia的意思

lamia

英 ['lem] 美

lamia (n.): late 14c., from Latin lamia, from Greek lamia "female vampire," literally "swallower, lecher," from laimos "throat, gullet." Probably cognate with Latin lemures "spirits of the dead" (see lemur). Used in early translations of the Bible for screech owls and sea monsters. Sometimes also, apparently, mermaids.
Also kynde erre in som beestes wondirliche j-schape, as it fare in a beest at hatte lamia, at ha an heed as a mayde & body as a grym fissche[;] whan at best lamya may fynde ony man, first a flatere wi hym with a wommannes face and make hym ligge by here while he may dure, & whanne he may noferere suffice to here lecherye anne he rende hym and sle and ete hym. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]

2. The Lamia Queen is an ancient sorceress of great power.: 拉弥亚女王是远古的女巫,拥有强大的力量.