Limici

Latin

The Limici lived along the Limia river, whose high course was in the past a shallow lake

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Gallaecian Limia, the Limia river, and the relational suffix *-ko-, meaning "the people of the Limia". The name Limia is from Proto-Celtic *līmo- ("flood; marsh", compare Welsh llif, "flow; stream; flood"), from Proto-Indo-European *léymō (“lake”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.mi.kiː/, [ˈlʲiːmɪkiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mi.t͡ʃi/, [ˈliːmit͡ʃi]

Proper noun

Līmicī m pl (genitive Līmicōrum); second declension

1. A tribe of Gallaecia

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Līmicī
Genitive	Līmicōrum
Dative	Līmicīs
Accusative	Līmicōs
Ablative	Līmicīs
Vocative	Līmicī

Related terms

• Limia

References

• Limici in Falileyev, Alexander (1997). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-Names, Aberystwyth University.
• Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.