limo

Clipping of limousine.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.məʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪ.moʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪməʊ

limo (plural limos)

1. (slang) Clipping of limousine.
   • 2015, “King Kunta”, in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar:

     Limo tinted with the gold plates / Straight from the bottom, this the belly of the beast / From a peasant to a prince to a motherfuckin' king

• stretch limo

• Milo, OIML, milo, moil

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limo (plural limo's)

1. Clipping of limousine.

• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo

1. to keep something a secret

limo

1. a ritual for teething a child

milo

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

From Spanish limón.

limo

1. lemon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.moː/
• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (informal) Clipping of limousine.

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (Netherlands, informal) Clipping of limonade.

Derived from Latin līmes.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlimo]
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• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo (accusative singular limon, plural limoj, accusative plural limojn)

1. border, frontier, boundary

   Coordinate terms: bordo, rando

   La Pireneoj formas la naturan limon inter Hispanio kaj Francio.

   The Pyrenees form the natural border between Spain and France.

   • 1997, Gerrit Berveling, transl., La Sankta Biblio‎, Germana Esperanto-Asocio, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, I Makabeoj 1:3:

     Li penetris ĝis la ekstremaj limoj de la tero kaj kaptis predon de multaj nacioj.

     And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, […]

2. (figurative) limit, breaking point

   Mi atingis mian limon, mi ne povas plu elteni.

   I've reached my limit; I can't take it anymore.

From dialectal Swedish lime (“bundle of wickers or leaves”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimo/, [ˈlimo̞]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification^(key): li‧mo

limo

1. Synonym of juhannuskoivu.

• Ilmo, olmi

From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlimʊ]

limo m (plural limos)

1. mucus, especially the mucus of a cow in heat
2. green seaweed that covers humid or submerged surfaces

   Synonym: verdello

3. slime

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• “limo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “limo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “limo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: lì‧mo

From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).

limo m (plural limi)

1. mud, slime
2. silt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limare

• Lomi, Milo, moli, olmi

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.moː/, [ˈlʲiːmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mo/, [ˈliːmo]

From līma (“a file, rasp”).

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation

1. to sharpen
2. to file, file off
3. to polish, finish
4. (figuratively) to investigate accurately

¹At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• līmātē
• līmātus

From līmus (“mud, slime”).

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to besmirch
2. to bespatter with mud

• Romanian: ima
• Sicilian: lippu (?)

• “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limo 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)
• limo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
    

From Proto-Malayic *lima(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.mɔ/

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• Rhymes: -imɔ
• Syllabification: li‧mo

limo n

1. (colloquial) black eye

   Synonym: podkowa

• limo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• limo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: li‧mo

limo m (plural limos)

1. mud, slime, silt

   Synonym: lodo

2. seaweed, wack (weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond)

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimo/ [ˈli.mo]
• Rhymes: -imo
• Syllabification: li‧mo

Borrowed from Latin līmus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”).

limo m (plural limos)

1. mud, slime, silt

   Synonyms: barro, lodo

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “limo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 656

• “limo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Philippine *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

limo

1. five