limo

Clipping of limousine.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.məʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.moʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪməʊ

limo (plural limos)

1. (slang) Clipping of limousine.
   • 2015, “King Kunta”, in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar:

     Limo tinted with the gold plates / Straight from the bottom, this the belly of the beast / From a peasant to a prince to a motherfuckin' king

• Milo, milo, moil

limo (plural limo's)

1. Clipping of limousine.

limo

1. lemon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.moː/
• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (informal) Clipping of limousine.

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (Netherlands, informal) Clipping of limonade.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimo/
• Hyphenation: li‧mo
• Rhymes: -imo

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limo (accusative singular limon, plural limoj, accusative plural limojn)

1. limit, boundary
   • 1997, Gerrit Berveling, transl., La Sankta Biblio‎, Germana Esperanto-Asocio, I Makabeoj 1:3:

     Li penetris ĝis la ekstremaj limoj de la tero kaj kaptis predon de multaj nacioj.

     And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, […]

2. border (of a country)

limo

1. Synonym of juhannuskoivu.

• Ilmo, olmi

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mo/, [ˈl̺iːmo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Stress: lìmo
• Hyphenation: li‧mo

From Latin līmus (“mud”, “slime”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”).

limo m (plural limi)

1. mud, slime
2. silt

See the etymology of the main entry.

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limare

• moli
• olmi

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.moː/

From līma (“a file, rasp”).

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation

1. I sharpen.
2. I file, file off.
3. I polish, finish.
4. (figuratively) I investigate accurately.

• līmātē
• līmātus

• French: limer
• Galician: limar
• Italian: limare
• Portuguese: limar
• Spanish: limar

From līmus (“mud, slime”).

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation

1. I besmirch.
2. I bespatter with mud.

• Romanian: ima

• limo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• limo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
    

From Proto-Malayic *lima(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲi.mɔ/

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limo n

1. (colloquial) black eye

limo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of limar

From Latin limus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”).

limo m (plural limos)

1. mud, slime, silt

• barro m
• lodo m

limo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of limar.

From Proto-Philippine *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five