Where does “lemur” come from?

lemur (Swedish) comes from Latin lemures — shades, ghosts of the departed; ghosts, spectres.

lemur (Swedish): a lemur

Definitions

  1. a lemur

Ancestry of “lemur”, step by step

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

Words derived from “lemur”

Every word from Latin lemures →