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.

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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/,
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation^(key): li‧mo

limo

1. Synonym of juhannuskoivu.

• Ilmo, olmi

From Latin līmus (“mud, slime”).

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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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “limo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “limo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “limo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.moː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mo/,

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/
• 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[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “limo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 656

• “limo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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