limes

From Latin līmes. Doublet of limit.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌɪmiːz/

limes (plural limites)

1. A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 92:

     Their presence in the late fourth century on the River Main (immediately to the east of the Roman limes) is documented in Roman sources, as are their wars with the Alemanni.

Inflected forms.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lʌɪmz/
• Rhymes: -aɪmz

limes

1. plural of lime

• Imels, Liems, Miles, Selim, miles, milse, misle, slime, smile

limes c

1. indefinite genitive singular of lime
2. indefinite plural of lime
3. indefinite genitive plural of lime

Learned borrowing from Latin līmes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimes/, [ˈlime̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -imes
• Syllabification^(key): li‧mes

limes

1. (mathematics) limit, used mainly to read out formulas.

   ${\displaystyle \lim _{x\to c}}$ reads: limes x lähenee c:tä.

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• IPA^(key): /lim/

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limes f

1. plural of lime

limes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of limar

From līmus (“askew”) +‎ -es (“going”). See also līmen.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.mes/, [ˈlʲiːmɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mes/, [ˈliːmes]

līmes m (genitive līmitis); third declension

1. limit, border, path.

   Synonyms: fīnis, modus, cacūmen

Third-declension noun.

• līmitāneus
• līmitō

• līmen
• sublīmis

Inflection of līmō (“sharpen, file”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.meːs/, [ˈlʲiːmeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mes/, [ˈliːmes]

līmēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō

Inflection of līmō (“besmirch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.meːs/, [ˈlʲiːmeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mes/, [ˈliːmes]

līmēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō

• “limes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• limes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “līmes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 344

limes

1. passive of lime

limes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of limar

Unadapted borrowing from Latin limes.

limes n (uncountable)

1. limes

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimes/ [ˈli.mes]
• Rhymes: -imes
• Syllabification: li‧mes

limes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of limar