See limen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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[
"līminis",
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"table-tags"
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},
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[
"līmen",
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]
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[
"līmina",
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[
"līminis",
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[
"līminum",
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]
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"genitive",
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[
"līminī",
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[
"līminibus",
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[
"līmen",
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[
"līmina",
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[
"līmine",
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]
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"ablative",
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]
},
{
"form": "līminibus",
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[
"līminibus",
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]
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"ablative",
"plural"
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},
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[
"līmen",
"limen#Latin"
]
],
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"singular",
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]
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{
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[
"līmina",
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{
"categories": [
{
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"kind": "other",
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},
{
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},
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},
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"english": "She will remember such crimes, and fiercely denounce you to all the other girls: alas, you’ll be loved on no threshold.",
"ref": "30 BCE – 16 BCE, Propertius, Elegiae",
"text": "Erit tantī crīminis illa memor, et tē circum omnīs aliās īrāta puellās differet heu nūllō līmine cārus eris.",
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},
{
"word": "iānua"
},
{
"word": "initium"
},
{
"word": "foris"
},
{
"word": "porta"
},
{
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{
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}
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],
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"Classical-Latin"
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{
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{
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{
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"dialectal"
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{
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[
"līmen",
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[
"līmina",
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[
"līminis",
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[
"līminum",
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]
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[
"līminī",
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]
],
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"dative",
"singular"
]
},
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[
"līminibus",
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]
],
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"dative",
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"form": "līmen",
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[
"līmen",
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{
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[
"līmina",
"limina#Latin"
]
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"accusative",
"plural"
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[
"līmine",
"limine#Latin"
]
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[
"līminibus",
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"plural"
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[
"līmen",
"limen#Latin"
]
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"vocative"
]
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{
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[
"līmina",
"limina#Latin"
]
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],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "līmus"
},
{
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},
{
"word": "sublīmis"
}
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],
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{
"english": "She will remember such crimes, and fiercely denounce you to all the other girls: alas, you’ll be loved on no threshold.",
"ref": "30 BCE – 16 BCE, Propertius, Elegiae",
"text": "Erit tantī crīminis illa memor, et tē circum omnīs aliās īrāta puellās differet heu nūllō līmine cārus eris.",
"translation": "She will remember such crimes, and fiercely denounce you to all the other girls: alas, you’ll be loved on no threshold.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)"
],
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"threshold",
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],
[
"doorstep",
"doorstep"
],
[
"sill",
"sill"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"lintel"
],
"links": [
[
"lintel",
"lintel"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "abitus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door"
],
"links": [
[
"entrance",
"entrance"
],
[
"doorway",
"doorway"
],
[
"approach",
"approach"
],
[
"door",
"door"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ingressus"
},
{
"word": "iānua"
},
{
"word": "initium"
},
{
"word": "foris"
},
{
"word": "porta"
},
{
"word": "ingressiō"
},
{
"word": "vestibulum"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"house, home, abode, dwelling"
],
"links": [
[
"house",
"house"
],
[
"home",
"home"
],
[
"abode",
"abode"
],
[
"dwelling",
"dwelling"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "fīnis"
}
],
"glosses": [
"beginning, commencement"
],
"links": [
[
"beginning",
"beginning"
],
[
"commencement",
"commencement"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "initium"
},
{
"word": "prīmōrdium"
},
{
"word": "prīncipium"
},
{
"word": "orīgō"
},
{
"word": "rudīmentum"
},
{
"word": "exordium"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"end, termination"
],
"links": [
[
"end",
"end"
],
[
"termination",
"termination"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈliː.mɛn]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈliː.men]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "limen"
}
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