limo

Clipping of limousine.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.məʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.moʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪməʊ

limo (plural limos)

1. (slang) Clipping of limousine.
   • 1999, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, New York: Henry Holt, page 495:

     He is believed to be a patron of certain brothels and élite “home delivery” services specializing in celebrity look-alikes. On one occasion he was actually caught in flagrante with a counterfeit Vina in the back of a super-stretch, but when the sharp-eyed cop who saw the hooker responding to a signal and entering the limo understood what was going on, […]

   • 2008, Francine Craft, Designed for Passion, page 244:

     No, he didn't play it cheap, but that didn't alter the fact that he was never going to let himself hurt Melodye.

   • 2010, Jeff Dunham, All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me:

     There were no limos or extravagances at this point, because we all wanted to make as much money as possible. We played it cheap. No huge catering bills, no wild parties, not even upgraded hotel rooms. Whenever we arrived at an airport Robin would be there to meet us in a rented SUV or big sedan, and we'd head to the gig on our own.

   • 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:

     No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]

   • 2015, “King Kunta”, in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar:

     Limo tinted with the gold plates / Straight from the bottom, this the belly of the beast / From a peasant to a prince to a motherfuckin' king

• Milo, OIML, milo, moil

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limo (plural limo's)

1. clipping of limousine

• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo

1. to keep something a secret

limo

1. a ritual for teething a child

milo

Central Dusun numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: limo     Ordinal: kolimo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

From Spanish limón.

limo

1. lemon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.moː/
• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (informal) clipping of limousine

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (Netherlands, informal) clipping of limonade

Derived from Latin līmes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimo/

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• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo (accusative singular limon, plural limoj, accusative plural limojn)

1. border, frontier, boundary

   Coordinate terms: bordo, rando

   La Pireneoj formas la naturan limon inter Hispanio kaj Francio.

   The Pyrenees form the natural border between Spain and France.

   • 1997, Gerrit Berveling, transl., La Sankta Biblio‎^[1], Germana Esperanto-Asocio, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, I Makabeoj 1:3:

     Li penetris ĝis la ekstremaj limoj de la tero kaj kaptis predon de multaj nacioj.

     And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, […]

2. (figurative) limit, breaking point

   Mi atingis mian limon, mi ne povas plu elteni.

   I've reached my limit; I can't take it anymore.

From dialectal Swedish lime (“bundle of wickers or leaves”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimo/, [ˈlimo̞]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification^(key): li‧mo
• Hyphenation^(key): li‧mo

limo

1. synonym of juhannuskoivu

• Ilmo, olmi

From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlimʊ]

limo m (plural limos)

1. mucus, especially the mucus of a cow in heat
2. green seaweed that covers humid or submerged surfaces

   Synonym: verdello

3. slime

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “limo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “limo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “limo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: lì‧mo

From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).

limo m (plural limi)

1. mud, slime
2. silt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limare

• Lomi, Milo, moli, olmi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.mo]

From līma (“a file, rasp”).

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation

1. to sharpen
2. to file, file off
3. to polish, finish
4. (figuratively) to investigate accurately

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• līmātē
• līmātus

From līmus (“mud, slime”).

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to besmirch
2. to bespatter with mud

• Romanian: ima
• Sicilian: lippu (?)

• “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "limo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• limo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
    

Minangkabau cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : limo     Ordinal : kalimo

From Proto-Malayic *lima(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mɔ/

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• Rhymes: -imɔ
• Syllabification: li‧mo

limo n

1. (colloquial) black eye

   Synonym: podkowa

• limo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• limo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo m (plural limos)

1. mud, slime, silt

   Synonym: lodo

2. seaweed, wack (weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond)

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimo/ [ˈli.mo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: li‧mo

Borrowed from Latin līmus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”).

limo m (plural limos)

1. mud, slime, silt

   Synonyms: barro, lodo

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “limo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 656

• “limo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Proto-Philippine *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five