limen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin limen (“threshold”)

Noun

limen (plural limens or limina)

  1. A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

limen

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of limar

Latin

Etymology

Likely related to līmus (“transverse, oblique”), with the suffix -men. See also līmes.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.men/, [ˈliː.mẽ]

Noun

līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension

  1. threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)
  2. lintel
  3. threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door
  4. house, home, abode, dwelling
  5. beginning, commencement
  6. end, termination

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative līmen līmina
genitive līminis līminum
dative līminī līminibus
accusative līmen līmina
ablative līmine līminibus
vocative līmen līmina

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • limen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • limen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • limen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • limen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
  • limen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • limen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From lijm +‎ -en.

Verb

limen

  1. to glue, to make stick with glue

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: lijmen
  • Limburgish: lieme

Further reading

  • “limen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “limen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

limen m

  1. definite singular of lime

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

limen m

  1. definite singular of lime

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǐmen/
  • Hyphenation: li‧men

Adjective

lìmen (definite lìmenī, Cyrillic spelling лѝмен)

  1. made of tin or sheet metal; tin-

Declension

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin līmen.

Noun

limen m (plural límenes)

  1. (poetic) threshold, doorstep
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See limar

Verb

limen

  1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of limar.
  2. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of limar.
  3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of limar.
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