limus
English edit
Noun edit
limus
Anagrams edit
Ilocano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish limosna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
limús (plural limlimus)
Derived terms edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.mus/, [ˈlʲiːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.mus/, [ˈliːmus]
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly from Proto-Italic *līmos (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic.[1] Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”).[2] Compare perhaps Proto-Germanic *limuz (“limb, branch”).
Adjective edit
līmus (feminine līma, neuter līmum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | līmus | līma | līmum | līmī | līmae | līma | |
Genitive | līmī | līmae | līmī | līmōrum | līmārum | līmōrum | |
Dative | līmō | līmō | līmīs | ||||
Accusative | līmum | līmam | līmum | līmōs | līmās | līma | |
Ablative | līmō | līmā | līmō | līmīs | |||
Vocative | līme | līma | līmum | līmī | līmae | līma |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 342–343: “PIt. *(s)līmo-?”
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Etymology 2 edit
Somewhat uncertain; maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) or *(s)ley-mo- (“slime”). Possible cognates include λίμνη (límnē, “marsh, pool, lake”), Sanskrit लिनाति (lināti, “sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears”), Ukrainian слимак (slymak, “snail”), Old Church Slavonic слина (slina, “spittle”), Old Irish sligim (“to smear”), leinam (“I follow”, literally “I stick to”), Irish lean, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), English slime. According to De Vaan, Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax, “snail”) is probably conversely borrowed from Latin.[1]
Noun edit
līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | līmus | līmī |
Genitive | līmī | līmōrum |
Dative | līmō | līmīs |
Accusative | līmum | līmōs |
Ablative | līmō | līmīs |
Vocative | līme | līmī |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Albanian: lym
- Catalan: llim
- French: limon
- Galician: limo
- Italian: limo
- Portuguese: limo
- Romanian: im
- Spanish: limo
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 342
Etymology 3 edit
Perhaps from ligō (“tie, bind”)
Noun edit
līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | līmus | līmī |
Genitive | līmī | līmōrum |
Dative | līmō | līmīs |
Accusative | līmum | līmōs |
Ablative | līmō | līmīs |
Vocative | līme | līmī |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- (adjective) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (mud) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (apron) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “limus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “limus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “limus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin