limes
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin līmes. Doublet of limit.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlʌɪmiːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]limes (plural limites)
- A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 92:
- Their presence in the late fourth century on the River Main (immediately to the east of the Roman limes) is documented in Roman sources, as are their wars with the Alemanni.
Etymology 2
[edit]Inflected forms.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]limes
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]limes c
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin līmes.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]limes
- (mathematics) limit, used mainly to read out formulas.
- reads: limes x lähenee c:tä.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of limes (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | limes | limekset | |
| genitive | limeksen | limesten limeksien | |
| partitive | limestä | limeksiä | |
| illative | limekseen | limeksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | limes | limekset | |
| accusative | nom. | limes | limekset |
| gen. | limeksen | ||
| genitive | limeksen | limesten limeksien | |
| partitive | limestä | limeksiä | |
| inessive | limeksessä | limeksissä | |
| elative | limeksestä | limeksistä | |
| illative | limekseen | limeksiin | |
| adessive | limeksellä | limeksillä | |
| ablative | limekseltä | limeksiltä | |
| allative | limekselle | limeksille | |
| essive | limeksenä | limeksinä | |
| translative | limekseksi | limeksiksi | |
| abessive | limeksettä | limeksittä | |
| instructive | — | limeksin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
See also
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]limes f
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]limes
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From līmus (“askew”) + -es (“going”). See also līmen.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈliː.mɛs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.mes]
Noun
[edit]līmes m (genitive līmitis); third declension
- a limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary
- a fortified boundary line, a boundary wall
- any path:
- a path, footpath
- 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.19–20:
- adclīvī Clymenēia līmite prōlēs
vēnit et intrāvit dubitātī tēcta parentis- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- adclīvī Clymenēia līmite prōlēs
- a road
- a by-way
- (figuratively) a way, means
- 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 6.26:
- si quidem bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditus patet, […] , nunc tamen tanto praemio exposito enitar multo vigilantius
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- si quidem bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditus patet, […] , nunc tamen tanto praemio exposito enitar multo vigilantius
- 2 CE, Ovidius, Ars Amatoria 3.557–558:
- nec stabiles animos annis viridemque iuventam
ut capias, idem limes agendus erit.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- nec stabiles animos annis viridemque iuventam
- c. 59 CE, Seneca Minor, De Beneficiis 1.15.2:
- Quare si quis existimat nos, quum ista praecipimus, benignitatis fines introrsus referre, et illi minus laxum limitem aperire; ne perperam monitiones nostras exaudiat.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Quare si quis existimat nos, quum ista praecipimus, benignitatis fines introrsus referre, et illi minus laxum limitem aperire; ne perperam monitiones nostras exaudiat.
- a path, footpath
- (transferred senses):
- a boundary, border, end
- c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 4.10.168–170:
- Unus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis,
aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi
ut Gyarae clausus scopulis paruaque Seripho- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Unus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis,
- a distinction, difference
- c. 2 CE, Ovidius, Remedia Amoris 325–326:
- Qua potes, in peius dotes deflecte puellae,
Iudiciumque brevi limite falle tuum.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Qua potes, in peius dotes deflecte puellae,
- c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 9.1.3:
- ita quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ita quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur
- a boundary, border, end
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | līmes | līmitēs |
| genitive | līmitis | līmitum |
| dative | līmitī | līmitibus |
| accusative | līmitem | līmitēs |
| ablative | līmite | līmitibus |
| vocative | līmes | līmitēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: llinda
- Ibero-Romance:
- Vulgar Latin:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *līmitellus
- Old French: lintel (see there for further descendants)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *līmitellus
- Borrowings:
Etymology 2
[edit]Inflection of līmō (“sharpen, file”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈliː.meːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.mes]
Verb
[edit]līmēs
Etymology 3
[edit]Inflection of līmō (“besmirch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈliː.meːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈliː.mes]
Verb
[edit]līmēs
References
[edit]- “limes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “limes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "limes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “limes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “līmes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 344
Norwegian Bokmål
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Old English
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Noun
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Portuguese
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin limes.
Noun
[edit]limes n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | limes | limesul |
| genitive-dative | limes | limesului |
| vocative | limesule | |
Spanish
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Swedish
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