limen
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin limen (“threshold”)
Noun
limen (plural limens or limina)
- A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
limen
Latin
Etymology
Likely related to līmus (“transverse, oblique”), with the suffix -men. See also līmes.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈliː.men/, [ˈlʲiːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.men/, [ˈliːmen]
Noun
līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension
- threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)
- lintel
- threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door
- house, home, abode, dwelling
- beginning, commencement
- end, termination
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | līmen | līmina |
Genitive | līminis | līminum |
Dative | līminī | līminibus |
Accusative | līmen | līmina |
Ablative | līmine | līminibus |
Vocative | līmen | līmina |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “limen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “limen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limen 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)
- limen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
- to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
- “limen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “limen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Verb
limen
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “limen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “limen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
limen m
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
limen m
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Adjective
lìmen (Cyrillic spelling лѝмен, definite lìmenī)
- made of tin or sheet metal; tin-
Declension
indefinite forms
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | limen | limena | limeno | |
genitive | limena | limene | limena | |
dative | limenu | limenoj | limenu | |
accusative | inanimate animate |
limen limena |
limenu | limeno |
vocative | limen | limena | limeno | |
locative | limenu | limenoj | limenu | |
instrumental | limenim | limenom | limenim | |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | limeni | limene | limena | |
genitive | limenih | limenih | limenih | |
dative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
accusative | limene | limene | limena | |
vocative | limeni | limene | limena | |
locative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
instrumental | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) |
definite forms
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
---|---|---|---|---|
nominative | limeni | limena | limeno | |
genitive | limenog(a) | limene | limenog(a) | |
dative | limenom(u/e) | limenoj | limenom(u/e) | |
accusative | inanimate animate |
limeni limenog(a) |
limenu | limeno |
vocative | limeni | limena | limeno | |
locative | limenom(e/u) | limenoj | limenom(e/u) | |
instrumental | limenim | limenom | limenim | |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
nominative | limeni | limene | limena | |
genitive | limenih | limenih | limenih | |
dative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
accusative | limene | limene | limena | |
vocative | limeni | limene | limena | |
locative | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | |
instrumental | limenim(a) | limenim(a) | limenim(a) |
Spanish
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin līmen.
Noun
limen m (plural límenes)
Synonyms
Etymology 2
See limar
Verb
limen
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