postliminium

English

Latin postliminium, after + a threshold.

postliminium (countable and uncountable, plural postliminia)

(historical, Roman antiquity) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy^[1]
(law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
  Postliminium […] is a right recognized by the law of nations , and contributes essentially to mitigate the calamities of war

^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “POSTLIMINIUM”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volumes (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.

From post (“after”) +‎ līmen (“threshold”) +‎ -ium.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /post.liːˈmi.ni.um/, [pɔs̠(t̪)lʲiːˈmɪniʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /post.liˈmi.ni.um/, [post̪liˈmiːnium]

postlīminium n (genitive postlīminiī or postlīminī); second declension

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

postliminium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“postliminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
postliminium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung