limitrophus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From līmes (“border”) + Ancient Greek -τροφος (-trophos, “feeding”). Attested in the Codex Theodosianus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈmi.tro.fus/, [liˈmiːt̪rofus]
Adjective[edit]
līmitrophus (feminine līmitropha, neuter līmitrophum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
- feeding the frontier soldiers
- fundi limitrophi
- (Medieval Latin, by extension) on the frontier
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | līmitrophus | līmitropha | līmitrophum | līmitrophī | līmitrophae | līmitropha | |
| Genitive | līmitrophī | līmitrophae | līmitrophī | līmitrophōrum | līmitrophārum | līmitrophōrum | |
| Dative | līmitrophō | līmitrophō | līmitrophīs | ||||
| Accusative | līmitrophum | līmitropham | līmitrophum | līmitrophōs | līmitrophās | līmitropha | |
| Ablative | līmitrophō | līmitrophā | līmitrophō | līmitrophīs | |||
| Vocative | līmitrophe | līmitropha | līmitrophum | līmitrophī | līmitrophae | līmitropha | |
Descendants[edit]
- → French: limitrophe
- → English: limitrophe
- → Portuguese: limítrofe
- → Spanish: limítrofe
- → Russian: лимитроф (limitrof)
- → Italian: limitrofo
References[edit]
- “limitrophus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- limitrophus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “līmes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 354