Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Lemuria en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin Lemuria.
Meanings
-
(historical) A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.
Deriveds
Lemurian
Translations (3)
mr लेमुरिया (religious feast of Ancient Rome) · la Lemūria (religious feast of Ancient Rome) · fr Lémuries (religious feast of Ancient Rome)
Lemuria en · PROPN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
From lemur + -ia; coined by English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1864.
Meanings
-
A hypothetical continent or landmass postulated to have existed as an explanation of why lemur fossils appeared in Madagascar and India, but not in Africa or the Middle East.
Dr. Sclater has proposed for the hypothetical continent connecting these distant points, and whose former existence is indicated by the Mascarene islands and the Maldive coral group, the name of Lemuria.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 445:
-
(New-Age) A supposed lost country, continent, or island of the Indian Ocean inhabited by an ancient, spiritually advanced race or advanced alien visitants.
Coordinates
Hyperborea · Atlantis · Mu
Deriveds
Lemurian
Translations (3)
el Λεμουρία (hypothetical island in the Indian Ocean) · pt Lemúria (hypothetical island in the Indian Ocean) · mr लेमुरिया (hypothetical island in the Indian Ocean)
wikipedia: Philip Sclater