limbus
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin limbus (“edge, border”)
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪmbəs
Noun
limbus (plural limbuses or limbi)
- (medicine, biology) A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea.
Derived terms
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Latin
Etymology
Possibly from *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”), the same Proto-Indo-European root as
- Sanskrit लम्बते (lambate, “hangs down”) and English limp
- or Lithuanian linta (“ribbon”) and Old Norse linnr (“whether”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlim.bus/, [ˈlʲɪmbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlim.bus/, [ˈlimbus]
Noun
limbus m (genitive limbī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | limbus | limbī |
Genitive | limbī | limbōrum |
Dative | limbō | limbīs |
Accusative | limbum | limbōs |
Ablative | limbō | limbīs |
Vocative | limbe | limbī |
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants of limbus in other languages
References
- “limbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “limbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limbus 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)
- limbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “limbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limbus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “limbus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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