different between jalopy vs limo

English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico, to whose scrap yards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???l?.pi/

Noun

jalopy (plural jalopies)

1. (US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
   • 1979, Jack Kerouac, On the road, page 3:

     Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles.

   • 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 22:

     There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.

2. (US, dated, slang) A hip, cool, groovy automobile.

Synonyms

• banger, beater, bucket of bolts, clunker, crate, flivver, hooptie, junker, rattletrap, rustbucket, tin Lizzie,lemon

Translations

References

English

Etymology

Clipping of limousine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?.m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?.mo?/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Noun

limo (plural limos)

1. (slang) Clipping of limousine.

Translations

Anagrams

• Milo, OIML, milo, moil

Afrikaans

Noun

limo (plural limo's)

1. Clipping of limousine.

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Pronunciation

Noun

limo

1. lemon.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.mo?/
• Hyphenation: li?mo

Etymology 1

Noun

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (informal) Clipping of limousine.

Etymology 2

Noun

limo f (plural limo's)

1. (Netherlands, informal) Clipping of limonade.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English limit, Italian limite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?limo/
• Hyphenation: li?mo
• Rhymes: -imo

Noun

limo (accusative singular limon, plural limoj, accusative plural limojn)

1. limit, boundary
2. border (of a country)

Finnish

Noun

limo

1. Synonym of juhannuskoivu.

Declension

Anagrams

• Ilmo, olmi

Galician

Verb

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li.mo/
• Rhymes: -imo
• Hyphenation: lì?mo

Etymology 1

From Latin l?mus (“mud, slime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?leyH- (“to smear”).

Noun

limo m (plural limi)

1. mud, slime
2. silt

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

limo

1. first-person singular present indicative of limare

Anagrams

• moli
• olmi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?li?.mo?/, [?li?mo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?li.mo/, [?li?m?]

Etymology 1

From l?ma (“a file, rasp”).

Verb

l?m? (present infinitive l?m?re, perfect active l?m?v?, supine l?m?tum); first conjugation

1. I sharpen.
2. I file, file off.
3. I polish, finish.
4. (figuratively) I investigate accurately.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• l?m?t?
• l?m?tus

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From l?mus (“mud, slime”).

Verb

l?m? (present infinitive l?m?re, perfect active l?m?v?, supine l?m?tum); first conjugation, no passive

1. I besmirch.
2. I bespatter with mud.

Conjugation

Related terms

Descendants

• Romanian: ima

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• limo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *lima(?), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

Numeral

limo

1. five

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?i.m?/

Noun

limo n

1. (colloquial) black eye

Declension

Portuguese

Verb

limo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of limar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin limus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“slime, slimy, sticky, slippery”).

Noun

limo m (plural limos)

1. mud, slime, silt

   Synonyms: barro, lodo

Derived terms

• correlimos

Verb

limo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of limar.

Tiruray

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *lima, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

Numeral

limo

1. five

West Coast Bajau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

Numeral

limo

1. five