limen
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin limen (“threshold”)
NounEdit
limen (plural limens or limina)
- A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.
AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Likely related to līmus (“transverse, oblique”), with the suffix -men. See also līmes.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension
- threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)
- lintel
- threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door
- house, home, abode, dwelling
- beginning, commencement
- end, termination
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | līmen | līmina |
Genitive | līminis | līminum |
Dative | līminī | līminibus |
Accusative | līmen | līmina |
Ablative | līmine | līminibus |
Vocative | līmen | līmina |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- limen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- limen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- limen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
- to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
- limen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
limen
InflectionEdit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “limen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “limen”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lìmen (definite lìmenī, Cyrillic spelling лѝмен)
- made of tin or sheet metal; tin-
DeclensionEdit
indefinite forms
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | limen | limena | limeno | |
genitive | limena | limene | limena | |
dative | limenu | limenoj | limenu | |
accusative | inanimate animate |
limen limena |
limenu | limeno |
vocative | limen | limena | limeno | |
locative | limenu | limenoj | limenu | |
instrumental | limenim | limenom | limenim | |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | limeni | limene | limena | |
genitive | limenih | limenih | limenih | |
dative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
accusative | limene | limene | limena | |
vocative | limeni | limene | limena | |
locative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
instrumental | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) |
definite forms
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | limeni | limena | limeno | |
genitive | limenog(a) | limene | limenog(a) | |
dative | limenom(u/e) | limenoj | limenom(u/e) | |
accusative | inanimate animate |
limeni limenog(a) |
limenu | limeno |
vocative | limeni | limena | limeno | |
locative | limenom(e/u) | limenoj | limenom(e/u) | |
instrumental | limenim | limenom | limenim | |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | limeni | limene | limena | |
genitive | limenih | limenih | limenih | |
dative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
accusative | limene | limene | limena | |
vocative | limeni | limene | limena | |
locative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
instrumental | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) |