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

• Melin, Milne, limne

Galician

Verb

limen

1. inflection of limar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.men/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.men/,

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

   Synonyms: ingressus, iānua, initium, foris, porta, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

4. house, home, abode, dwelling
5. beginning, commencement

   Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, orīgō, rudīmentum, exordium

   Antonym: fīnis

6. end, termination

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Related terms

• līmus
• līmes
• sublīmis

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “līmen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 343

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
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “limen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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. (relational) tin, sheet metal

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimen/
• Rhymes: -imen
• Syllabification: li‧men

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin līmen.

Noun

limen m (plural límenes)

1. (poetic) threshold, doorstep

   Synonym: umbral

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

limen

1. inflection of limar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

limen

1. definite singular of lime