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Limbus
{
Lim′bo
(lĭm′bō̍)
, Lim′bus
(lĭm′bŭs)
, } Noun.
1.
(Scholastic Theol.)
An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment.
As far from help as
Limbo
is from bliss. Shakespeare
A
The Paradise of fools.
Limbo
large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of fools.
Milton.
☞ The limbus patrum was considered as a place for the souls of good men who lived before the coming of our Savior. The limbus infantium was said to be a similar place for the souls of unbaptized infants. To these was added, in the popular belief, the limbus fatuorum, or fool’s paradise, regarded as a receptacle of all vanity and nonsense.
2.
Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison;
as, to put a man in
. limbo
4.
(Anat.)
A border or margin;
as, the
. limbus
of the corneaDefinition 2024
limbus
limbus
English
Noun
limbus (plural limbuses or limbi)
- (medicine, biology) A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea.
Derived terms
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Latin
Etymology
Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as
- Sanskrit लम्बते (lambate, “hangs down”) and English limp
- Or Lithuanian linta (“ribbon”) and Old Norse linnr (“whether”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlim.bus/
Noun
limbus m (genitive limbī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | limbus | limbī |
| genitive | limbī | limbōrum |
| dative | limbō | limbīs |
| accusative | limbum | limbōs |
| ablative | limbō | limbīs |
| vocative | limbe | limbī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: limbus
- English: limbo
- English: limbic system
- French: limbique
- Russian: лимб (limb)
References
- limbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- limbus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- LIMBUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “limbus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- limbus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- limbus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- limbus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin