larvae

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• Larvae — {{Larvae}} Totengeister des römischen Volksglaubens, die man sich meist als Knochenmänner vorstellte …   Who's who in der antiken Mythologie

• larvae — plural of LARVA (Cf. larva) (q.v.) …   Etymology dictionary

• larvae —    In Roman lore, evil spirits that harm and frighten the living. Larvae, also known as lemurs, are demonic ghosts of the dead who, because of their misdeeds in life, are punished in the afterlife by being sentenced to exile and eternal wandering …   Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology

• Larvae — In Roman mythology, the larvae or lemures (singular lemur ) were the spectres or spirits of the dead; they were the malignant version of the lares . Some Roman writers describe lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead, and… …   Wikipedia

• Larvae — En la mitología romana, las larvae (en español, «larvas») o lemures (en español, «lémures», en singular, «lémur»)[1] eran los espectros o espíritus de la muerte; eran la versión maligna de los lares. Algunos autores romanos describen a los… …   Wikipedia Español

• Larvae — Die Larvae (sg. larva, meist aber im Plural verwendet) oder Lemures (sg. lemur, meist aber im Plural verwendet) waren in der römischen Religion die Geister von Verstorbenen. Die Unterscheidung zwischen lemures und larvae ist unklar,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Larvae — Lémure Pour les articles homonymes, voir Lemur. Les lémures sont des spectres malfaisants issus des croyances de l antiquité romaine. Il ne faut pas les confondre avec les larves (larvae en latin) qui étaient des génies malfaisants. Antiquité… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Larvae —    From Roman mythology, spirits who afflicted people with incurable illnesses. The afflicted person must purge every wrong doing from their life before they died, or the Larvae would chase them in the lower world. They are the spirits of evil… …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

• larvae —   Naio.    ♦ Dragonfly larvae, ōlopelope, pua alohelohe, lohelohe, lohaloha …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

• Larvae — Larva Lar va (l[aum]r v[.a]), n.; pl. L. {Larv[ae]} (l[aum]r v[ae]), E. {Larvas} (l[aum]r v[.a]z). [L. larva ghost, specter, mask.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• larvae — plural of larva …   Dictionary of ichthyology