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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
limeta f
- lime (green citrus fruit)
- Synonym: limetka
Declension
Declension of limeta (hard feminine)
Further reading
- limeta in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Galician
Etymology
Ultimately from Andalusian Arabic لِيمْمَ (līmma), from Persian نیمه (nime, “half”).
Pronunciation
Noun
limeta f (plural limetas)
- flask, bottle
References
- “limeta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “limeta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish limeta, from Andalusian Arabic لِيمْمَ (līmma) + -eta, from Persian نیمه (nime, “half”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liˈmeta/,
- Hyphenation: li‧me‧ta
Noun
limeta (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜋᜒᜆ) (obsolete)
- bottle with a short but wide belly, and long narrow neck similar to a flask or a flagon
Usage notes
- According to Fr. San Buena Ventura (1613), the limeta was made out of clay and then painted, or made out of glass.
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Further reading
- “limeta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero, La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 329: “Garrafa) Limeta (pp) es como la de Caſtilla pero de barro, ay las muy padas”
- page 520: “Redoma) Limeta (pp) es de barro y đ hechura dela đ vidrio”