English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Latin postliminium, after + a threshold.

Noun

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postliminium (countable and uncountable, plural postliminia)

  1. (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]
  2. (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.

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  1. ^ 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.

Latin

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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postlīminium n (genitive postlīminiī or postlīminī); second declension

  1. the postliminy, the return to one's own country and one's former privileges

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative postlīminium postlīminia
Genitive postlīminiī
postlīminī1
postlīminiōrum
Dative postlīminiō postlīminiīs
Accusative postlīminium postlīminia
Ablative postlīminiō postlīminiīs
Vocative postlīminium postlīminia

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: postliminy, postliminium
  • Italian: postliminio

References

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  • 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