limousine

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English

A limousine (sense 3).

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌlɪməˈziːn/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

limousine (plural limousines)

  1. An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
  2. An automobile with such a body.
    Synonym: limo (slang)
  3. A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
    Synonym: limo (slang)
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
      It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  4. An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.
    Synonym: shuttle

Derived terms

Translations

automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front
automobile with such a body

Further reading

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine or English limousine.

Pronunciation

Noun

limousine (plural limousines)

  1. limousine (luxury sedan)
    Synonym: limo

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌli.muˈzi.nə/
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˌli.moːˈzi.nə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: li‧mou‧si‧ne
  • Rhymes: -inə

Noun

limousine f (plural limousines)

  1. limousine (luxury sedan)
    Synonym: limo

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.

Pronunciation

Noun

limousine f (plural limousines)

  1. (fashion) traditional woolen cloak from Haute-Vienne
  2. (automotive) limousine, luxury car
    Synonym: berline
  4. (zoology) limousin (cattle breed)

Descendants

Adjective

limousine

  1. feminine singular of limousin

References

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “limousine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
  2. ^ http://www.tv5monde.com/cms/chaine-francophone/lf/Merci-Professeur/p-17081-Berline-et-limousine.htm

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French limousine.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: li‧mou‧si‧ne

Noun

limousine f (plural limousines)

  1. Alternative spelling of limusine

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

limousine c

  1. a limousine (luxury sedan)

Declension

Declension of limousine 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative limousine limousinen limousiner limousinerna
Genitive limousines limousinens limousiners limousinernas

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