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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

English

Etymology

lime +? -y

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.mi/
• Rhymes: -a?mi
• Homophone: limey

Adjective

limy (comparative limier, superlative limiest)

1. containing or resembling lime
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 6:

     Limy muds accumulated there as sediments, and entombed the remains of the animals living on the sea-floor.

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