limitrophus
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.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | līmitrophus | līmitropha | līmitrophum | līmitrophī | līmitrophae | līmitropha | |
| genitive | līmitrophī | līmitrophae | līmitrophī | līmitrophōrum | līmitrophārum | līmitrophōrum | |
| dative | līmitrophō | līmitrophae | 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, volume 5: J L, page 354