limus

English

Noun

limus

  1. plural of limu

Anagrams

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish limosna.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /liˈmus/, [liˈmus]
  • Hyphenation: li‧mus

Noun

limús (plural limlimus)

  1. alms

Derived terms
  • agpalimus
  • ilimus
  • limusan
  • limusan
  • lumimus
  • makilimlimos
  • mananglimus

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Italic *līmos (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic.[1] Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”).[2] Compare perhaps Proto-Germanic *limuz (“limb, branch”).

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

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 342–343: “PIt. *(s)līmo-?”
  2. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Somewhat uncertain; maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) or *(s)ley-mo- (“slime”). Possible cognates include λίμνη (límnē, “marsh, pool, lake”), Sanskrit लिनाति (lināti, “sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears”), Ukrainian слимак (slymak, “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.[1]

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
Descendants
  • Albanian: lym
  • Catalan: llim
  • French: limon
  • Galician: limo
  • Italian: limo
  • Portuguese: limo
  • Romanian: im
  • Spanish: limo

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līmus 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 342

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

Further reading
  • (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
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