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Yes. The word lemures is a Scrabble US word. The word lemures is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (2 found)

LEMURES,RELUMES,

6-letter words (7 found)

EMULES,EMURES,LEMURS,MERELS,MERLES,RELUME,RESUME,

5-letter words (28 found)

EMEUS,EMULE,EMURE,LEERS,LEMES,LEMUR,LERES,LURES,LUSER,MEERS,MEREL,MERES,MERLE,MERLS,MERSE,MESEL,MEUSE,MULES,MULSE,MURES,MURLS,MUSER,REELS,REUSE,RULES,RUMES,SERUM,SLEER,

4-letter words (52 found)

EELS,ELMS,ELSE,EMES,EMEU,EMUS,ERES,LEER,LEES,LEME,LERE,LUES,LUMS,LURE,LURS,MEER,MEES,MELS,MERE,MERL,MESE,MEUS,MULE,MURE,MURL,MUSE,REEL,REES,REMS,RUES,RULE,RUME,RUMS,RUSE,SEEL,SEEM,SEER,SELE,SEME,SERE,SLEE,SLUE,SLUM,SLUR,SMEE,SMUR,SUER,SURE,ULES,UMES,URES,USER,

3-letter words (35 found)

EEL,ELM,ELS,EME,EMS,EMU,ERE,ERM,ERS,LEE,LES,LEU,LUM,LUR,MEE,MEL,MES,MEU,MUS,REE,REM,RES,RUE,RUM,SEE,SEL,SER,SUE,SUM,SUR,ULE,UME,UMS,URE,USE,

2-letter words (11 found)

EE,EL,EM,ER,ES,ME,MU,RE,UM,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 136 words from lemures according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lemures

lemures

Etymology

From Latin lemurēs. See lemur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛmjəriːz/

Noun

lemures pl (plural only)

  1. (Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.
    Coordinate term: Lares

Related terms

  • lemur
  • Lemuria

Further reading

  • lemures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “lemures”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • relumes

Latin

Etymology

According to de Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈle.mu.reːs/, [ˈɫ̪ɛmʊreːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈle.mu.res/, [ˈlɛːmures]

Noun

lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension

  1. shades, ghosts of the departed
  2. ghosts, spectres

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Descendants

  • English: lemur, lemures
  • French: lémur, lémure

See also

  • phasma

References

  • “lemures”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lemures in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lemures”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “lemures”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “lemures”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  • Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press

Source: wiktionary.org