limus
English
Noun
limus
- plural of limu
Anagrams
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlimus/
- Rhymes: -imus
- Hyphenation: li‧mus
Verb
limus
- conditional of limi
Ilocano
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish limosna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈmus/ [liˈmus]
- Hyphenation: li‧mus
Noun
limús (plural limlimus)
Derived terms
- agpalimus
- ilimus
- limusan
- lumimus
- makilimlimos
- mananglimus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈliː.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.mus]
- Hyphenation: lī‧mus
Etymology 1
Possibly from Proto-Italic *līmos (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic.[1] Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”).[2] Compare perhaps Proto-Germanic *limuz (“limb, branch”).
Adjective
līmus (feminine līma, neuter līmum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | līmus | līma | līmum | līmī | līmae | līma | |
| genitive | līmī | līmae | līmī | līmōrum | līmārum | līmōrum | |
| dative | līmō | līmae | līmō | līmīs | |||
| accusative | līmum | līmam | līmum | līmōs | līmās | līma | |
| ablative | līmō | līmā | līmō | līmīs | |||
| vocative | līme | līma | līmum | līmī | līmae | līma | |
Derived terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 342–343: “PIt. *(s)līmo-?”
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Etymology 2
Somewhat uncertain; maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) or *(s)ley-mo- (“slime”). Possible cognates include λίμνη (límnē, “marsh, pool, lake”), Sanskrit लिनाति (lināti, “sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears”), Ukrainian слимак (slymak, “snail”), Old Church Slavonic слина (slina, “spittle”), Old Irish sligim (“to smear”), leinam (“I follow”, literally “I stick to”), Irish lean, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), English slime. According to De Vaan, Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax, “snail”) is probably conversely borrowed from Latin.[1]
Noun
līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | līmus | līmī |
| genitive | līmī | līmōrum |
| dative | līmō | līmīs |
| accusative | līmum | līmōs |
| ablative | līmō | līmīs |
| vocative | līme | līmī |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Albanian: lym
- Catalan: llim
- French: limon
- Galician: limo
- Italian: limo
- Portuguese: limo
- Romanian: im
- Spanish: limo
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 342
Etymology 3
Perhaps from ligō (“tie, bind”)
Noun
līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | līmus | līmī |
| genitive | līmī | līmōrum |
| dative | līmō | līmīs |
| accusative | līmum | līmōs |
| ablative | līmō | līmīs |
| vocative | līme | līmī |
Derived terms
- līmocīnctus
Further reading
- (adjective) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (mud) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- (apron) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “limus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “limus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “limus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin