limitrophus
Latin
Etymology
Derived from līmes (“border”) + Ancient Greek τρέφω (tréphō, “I maintain, support”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /liːˈmi.tro.pʰus/, [lʲiːˈmɪt̪rɔpʰʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈmi.tro.fus/, [liˈmiːt̪rofus]
Adjective
līmitrophus (feminine līmitropha, neuter līmitrophum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
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
- → French: limitrophe
- → English: limitrophe
- → Russian: лимитроф (limitrof)
- → Italian: limitrofo
- → Portuguese: limítrofe
- → Spanish: limítrofe
References
- “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
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