limus

English

Noun

limus

1. plural of limu

Anagrams

• mulis, simul

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.mus/, [ˈlʲiːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mus/, [ˈliːmus]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *limo (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”).

Adjective

līmus (feminine līma, neuter līmum); first/second-declension adjective

1. sidelong, askew, askance, sideways

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	līmus	līma	līmum		līmī	līmae	līma
Genitive	līmī	līmae	līmī		līmōrum	līmārum	līmōrum
Dative	līmō		līmō		līmīs
Accusative	līmum	līmam	līmum		līmōs	līmās	līma
Ablative	līmō	līmā	līmō		līmīs
Vocative	līme	līma	līmum		līmī	līmae	līma

Derived terms

• līmes
• līmō
• Līmus

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”). Cognates include λίμνη (límnē, “marsh, pool, lake”), Sanskrit लिनाति (lināti, “sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears”), Russian слимак (slimak, “snail”), Old Church Slavonic слина (slina, “spittle”), Old Irish sligim (“to smear”), leinam (“I follow”, literally “I stick to”), Irish lean, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), English slime. According to De Vaan, Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax, “snail”) is probably conversely borrowed from Latin.

Noun

līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension

1. mud, slime, muck
2. (figuratively) feces within the bowels.
3. filth, pollution

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līmus	līmī
Genitive	līmī	līmōrum
Dative	līmō	līmīs
Accusative	līmum	līmōs
Ablative	līmō	līmīs
Vocative	līme	līmī

Derived terms

• līmōsus
• līmāx

Related terms

• līmō

Descendants

• Catalan: llim
• Italian: limo
• Portuguese: limo
• Romanian: im
• Spanish: limo

Etymology 3

Perhaps from ligō (“tie, bind”)

Noun

līmus m (genitive līmī); second declension

1. a priest's apron.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līmus	līmī
Genitive	līmī	līmōrum
Dative	līmō	līmīs
Accusative	līmum	līmōs
Ablative	līmō	līmīs
Vocative	līme	līmī

Derived terms

• līmocīnctus

References

• (adjective) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (mud) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (apron) “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “limus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “limus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “limus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN