limax

See also: Limax

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax), from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-m-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.maːks/, [ˈlʲiːmäːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.maks/, [ˈliːmäks]

Noun

līmāx f (genitive līmācis); third declension

1. slug, snail

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līmāx	līmācēs
Genitive	līmācis	līmācum
Dative	līmācī	līmācibus
Accusative	līmācem	līmācēs
Ablative	līmāce	līmācibus
Vocative	līmāx	līmācēs

Descendants

• Asturian: llimaz, llimiagu
• Catalan: llimac
• Galician: limacha, lesma
• → Interlingua: limace
• Italian: lumaca
• Occitan: limauc
• Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
• Portuguese: lesma
• Romansch: glimaja
• Spanish: limaco, lumiaco
• → Romanian: limax
• → Translingual: Limax
• Venetian: łimega
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācea
  • French: limace
  • Italian: limaccia
  • Norman: lînmache
  • Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
  • Sicilian: limaccia
  • Spanish: limaza

References

• “limax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λεῖμαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 843

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limax.

Noun

limax m (plural limacși)

1. slug

   Synonym: melc fără casă

Declension

Declension of limax

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) limax	limaxul	(niște) limacși	limacșii
genitive/dative	(unui) limax	limaxului	(unor) limacși	limacșilor
vocative	limaxule		limacșilor

See also

• melc