limus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.mus/, [ˈliː.mʊs]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *limo (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”).[1]
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 |
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
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 |
Related terms
Etymology 3
Perhaps from ligō (“tie, bind”)
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 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN