limax

See also: Limax

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax), from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-m-.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.maːks/, [ˈlʲiːmäːks̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.maks/, [ˈliːmäks]

Noun

līmāx f (genitive līmācis); third declension

slug, snail

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līmāx	līmācēs
Genitive	līmācis	līmācum
Dative	līmācī	līmācibus
Accusative	līmācem	līmācēs
Ablative	līmāce	līmācibus
Vocative	līmāx	līmācēs

Descendants

Asturian: llimaz, llimiagu
Catalan: llimac
Galician: limacha, lesma
→ Interlingua: limace
Italian: lumaca
Occitan: limauc
Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
Portuguese: lesma
Romansch: glimaja
Spanish: limaco, lumiaco
→ Romanian: limax
→ Translingual: Limax
Venetian: łimega
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācea
- French: limace
- Italian: limaccia
- Norman: lînmache
- Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
- Sicilian: limaccia
- Spanish: limaza

References

“limax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
limax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λεῖμαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 843

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limax.

Noun

limax m (plural limacși)

slug
Synonym: melc fără casă

Declension

Declension of limax

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) limax	limaxul	(niște) limacși	limacșii
genitive/dative	(unui) limax	limaxului	(unor) limacși	limacșilor
vocative	limaxule		limacșilor

See also

melc

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