Where does “lemur” come from?

Lemur comes from Latin lemures, whose original meaning remains unknown.

lemur (English): Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder...

Definitions

  1. Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder...

Ancestry of “lemur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlemuresshades, ghosts of the departed; ghosts, spectres

Words derived from “lemur”

Every word from Latin lemures →