Word: Lemuria
Part of speech: Proper noun
Syllables: le
mu
ri
a
Definition: Proper noun~ A mythical lost country, continent, or island proposed to explain the existence of lemurs and their relatives on two continents.
Morphemes:
Affix: lemur
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: lemurēs
Language: la
Decoded: lemures
Meaning: spirits of the dead
Affix: -ia
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers, and rarely collections of things (such as militaria, deletia).
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ia
Language: la
Decoded: -ia
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually from an adjective or a present participle stem, and occasionally from a root noun.