limax

See also: Limax

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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

• ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *lēmecis
  • Galician: lesma
  • Portuguese: lesma
• ⇒ limācem
  • Asturian: llimaz
  • Occitan: limaç
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limāca
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: lumaca
  • North-Italian:
    • Lombard: lumaga, lumega, numega
    • Lombard: lumaga, lumega
    • Piedmontese: lumega
    • Romagnol: lumega, lumeaga
    • Venetian: łimega
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Gascon: limaca
    • Occitan: limauca, limaca
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācum
  • North-Italian:
    • Emilian: lumec
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: limaco, llimaco
    • Catalan: llimac
    • Gascon: limac
    • Occitan: limauc, limac
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: llimiagu
    • Spanish: limaco, lumiaco
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācea
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: limaccia
    • Sicilian: limaccia
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • French: limace
    • Occitan: limaça
    • Norman: lînmache
  • North-Italian:
    • Ligurian: lumassa
    • Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
    • Romansch: glimaja
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: limacha
    • Spanish: limaza
• Borrowings:
  • → Interlingua: limace
  • → Romanian: limax
  • → Translingual: Limax

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