limace

English

Etymology

From French limace.

Noun

limace (plural limaces)

1. A slug (mollusk).
   • 1860, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, volume 3, page 156:

     I took heart of grace, and for the first time in my life a limace found its way into my stomach.

2. (archaeology) A kind of slug-shaped chisel.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French [Term?] (cf. the form limaz), from Vulgar Latin *limacea, ultimately from Latin limax (“slug, snail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.mas/

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Noun

limace f (plural limaces)

1. slug
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Alors l'indignation la prit, à voir cette grosse main, aux doigts rouges et mous comme des limaces, qui se posait sur ces pages où son coeur avait battu.

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Derived terms

• limaçon

Further reading

• “limace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Interlingua

Noun

limace (plural limaces)

1. snail, slug

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [liːˈmaː.kɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈmaː.t͡ʃe]

Noun

līmāce

1. ablative singular of līmāx