limitrophus

Latin

Etymology

From līmes (“border”) + Ancient Greek -τροφος (-trophos, “feeding”). Attested in the Codex Theodosianus.

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈmi.tro.fus/, [liˈmiːt̪rofus]

Adjective

līmitrophus (feminine līmitropha, neuter līmitrophum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

1. feeding the frontier soldiers

   fundi limitrophi

2. (Medieval Latin, by extension) on the frontier

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	līmitrophus	līmitropha	līmitrophum		līmitrophī	līmitrophae	līmitropha
Genitive	līmitrophī	līmitrophae	līmitrophī		līmitrophōrum	līmitrophārum	līmitrophōrum
Dative	līmitrophō		līmitrophō		līmitrophīs
Accusative	līmitrophum	līmitropham	līmitrophum		līmitrophōs	līmitrophās	līmitropha
Ablative	līmitrophō	līmitrophā	līmitrophō		līmitrophīs
Vocative	līmitrophe	līmitropha	līmitrophum		līmitrophī	līmitrophae	līmitropha

Descendants

• → French: limitrophe
  • → English: limitrophe
  • → Portuguese: limítrofe
  • → Spanish: limítrofe
  • → Russian: лимитроф (limitrof)
• → Italian: limitrofo

References

• “limitrophus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limitrophus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “līmes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 354