English

Noun

limus

1. plural of limu

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.mus/, [ˈliː.mʊs]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *limo ‎(“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic.

Adjective

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

1. sidelong, askew, askance, sideways

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• limes
• 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

Inflection

Second declension.

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.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• līmocinctus

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “limus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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