"limes" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈliː.mɛs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈliː.mes] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From līmus (“askew”) + -es (“going”). See also līmen. Etymology templates: {{suffix|la|līmus|-es|id2=t-stem|t1=askew|t2=going}} līmus (“askew”) + -es (“going”) Head templates: {{la-noun|līmes/līmit<3>|g=m}} līmes m (genitive līmitis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|līmes/līmit<3>}} Forms: līmes [canonical, masculine], līmitis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], līmes [nominative, singular], līmitēs [nominative, plural], līmitis [genitive, singular], līmitum [genitive, plural], līmitī [dative, singular], līmitibus [dative, plural], līmitem [accusative, singular], līmitēs [accusative, plural], līmite [ablative, singular], līmitibus [ablative, plural], līmes [singular, vocative], līmitēs [plural, vocative]
  1. a limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary Tags: declension-3 Synonyms: fīnis, modus, cacūmen
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-ynPnOo-x Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10
  2. a fortified boundary line, a boundary wall Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-ZB7iKsqz Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10
  3. any path:
    a path, footpath
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-Mvrr4Gyv
  4. any path:
    a road
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-8f5JYfIx
  5. any path:
    a by-way
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-GLsP9Bv- Categories (other): Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 1 14 1 9 2 12 12 23 12 3 1 3 3 1 1 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 16 6 10 10 22 10 14 1 3 6
  6. any path:
    (figuratively) a way, means
    Tags: declension-3, figuratively
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-bKr5~Ecu Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10
  7. (transferred senses):
    a boundary, border, end
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-K2TX~1DS Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension, Latin terms suffixed with -es (t-stem) Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -es (t-stem): 16 13 10 10 10 15 21 5
  8. (transferred senses):
    a distinction, difference
    Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-limes-la-noun-PHIoWikh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: līmitāneus, līmitō, līmitrophus Related terms: līmen, sublīmis
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: [ˈliː.meːs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈliː.mes] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) Forms: līmēs [canonical]
Etymology: Inflection of līmō (“sharpen, file”). Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=līmēs}} līmēs
  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō Tags: active, form-of, present, second-person, singular, subjunctive Form of: līmō
    Sense id: en-limes-la-verb-TOeLb7Gh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: [ˈliː.meːs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈliː.mes] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) Forms: līmēs [canonical]
Etymology: Inflection of līmō (“besmirch”). Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=līmēs}} līmēs
  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō Tags: active, form-of, present, second-person, singular, subjunctive Form of: līmō
    Sense id: en-limes-la-verb-TOeLb7Gh1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "līmitāneus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "līmitō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "līmitrophus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "word": "limite"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "word": "lemete"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "word": "gliemito"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Neapolitan",
          "lang_code": "nap",
          "word": "lemmeto"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Neapolitan",
          "lang_code": "nap",
          "word": "jemmeto"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Neapolitan",
          "lang_code": "nap",
          "word": "limiti"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "lang_code": "scn",
          "word": "limitu"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Italo-Romance",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Campidanese",
          "lang_code": "sc-sro",
          "word": "limidi"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Logudorese",
          "lang_code": "sc-src",
          "word": "limide"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "lang_code": "sc"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Dalmatian",
              "lang_code": "dlm",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "lainda"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Friulian",
          "lang_code": "fur",
          "word": "linda"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "lang_code": "lmo",
          "word": "limat"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "lang_code": "lmo",
          "word": "zlimat"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Piedmontese",
          "lang_code": "pms",
          "word": "lümi"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Piedmontese",
          "lang_code": "pms",
          "word": "lümmiu"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Piedmontese",
          "lang_code": "pms",
          "word": "limbiu"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Padanian",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Franco-Provençal",
          "lang_code": "frp",
          "word": "lẽda"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Franco-Provençal",
          "lang_code": "frp",
          "word": "ẽda"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Franco-Provençal",
          "lang_code": "frp",
          "word": "nẽda"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Orléanais",
          "lang_code": "roa-orl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
          ],
          "word": "lindelle"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Northern Gallo-Romance",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "lang_code": "ca",
          "word": "llinda"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Southern Gallo-Romance",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Asturian",
              "lang_code": "ast",
              "word": "llende"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Asturian",
              "lang_code": "ast",
              "word": "llinde"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Leonese",
              "lang_code": "roa-leo",
              "word": "llinde"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old Leonese",
          "lang_code": "roa-ole",
          "word": "linde"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Fala",
          "lang_code": "fax",
          "word": "lindi"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "word": "linde"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "linde"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "linda"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "word": "linde"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Ibero-Romance",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Old French",
              "lang_code": "fro",
              "word": "lintel"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
          "lang_code": "la-vul",
          "raw_tags": [
            "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
          ],
          "word": "*līmitellus"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Vulgar Latin",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "límite"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Limes"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "lang_code": "eo",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limito"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "learned borrowing",
            "learned"
          ],
          "word": "limes"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limesz"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Ido",
          "lang_code": "io",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limito"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "French",
              "lang_code": "fr",
              "word": "limite"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Norman",
              "lang_code": "nrf",
              "word": "lînmite"
            },
            {
              "lang": "English",
              "lang_code": "en",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "limit"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Old French",
          "lang_code": "fro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limite"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limit"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limite"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "lang_code": "ro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limită"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "roman": "limit",
          "word": "лимит"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "lang_code": "scn",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "lìmiti"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "límite"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "lang_code": "sv",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limes"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Borrowings",
      "lang_code": "unknown"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "līmus",
        "3": "-es",
        "id2": "t-stem",
        "t1": "askew",
        "t2": "going"
      },
      "expansion": "līmus (“askew”) + -es (“going”)",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From līmus (“askew”) + -es (“going”). See also līmen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "līmes",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitis",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitis",
          "limitis"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmes",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmes",
          "limes#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitēs",
          "limites#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitis",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitis",
          "limitis#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitum",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitum",
          "limitum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitī",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitī",
          "limiti#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitibus",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitibus",
          "limitibus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitem",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitem",
          "limitem#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitēs",
          "limites#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmite",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmite",
          "limite#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitibus",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitibus",
          "limitibus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmes",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmes",
          "limes#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitēs",
          "limites#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "līmes/līmit<3>",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "līmes m (genitive līmitis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "līmes/līmit<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "līmen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "sublīmis"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-ynPnOo-x",
      "links": [
        [
          "limit",
          "limit"
        ],
        [
          "estates",
          "estates"
        ],
        [
          "fields",
          "fields"
        ],
        [
          "border",
          "border"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fīnis"
        },
        {
          "word": "modus"
        },
        {
          "word": "cacūmen"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a fortified boundary line, a boundary wall"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-ZB7iKsqz",
      "links": [
        [
          "fortified",
          "fortified"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ],
        [
          "wall",
          "wall"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.19–20",
          "roman": "vēnit et intrāvit dubitātī tēcta parentis",
          "text": "adclīvī Clymenēia līmite prōlēs",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a path, footpath"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-Mvrr4Gyv",
      "links": [
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "footpath",
          "footpath"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a road"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-8f5JYfIx",
      "links": [
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "1 1 1 14 1 9 2 12 12 23 12 3 1 3 3 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 6 10 10 22 10 14 1 3 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a by-way"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-GLsP9Bv-",
      "links": [
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "by-way",
          "by-way"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.3.18",
          "roman": "si male dicetis, vostro gradiar limite.",
          "text": "si bene dicetis, vostra ripa vos sequar,",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 6.26",
          "text": "si quidem bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditus patet,[…], nunc tamen tanto praemio exposito enitar multo vigilantius",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2 CE, Ovidius, Ars Amatoria 3.557–558",
          "roman": "ut capias, idem limes agendus erit.",
          "text": "nec stabiles animos annis viridemque iuventam",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 59 CE, Seneca Minor, De Beneficiis 1.15.2",
          "text": "Quare si quis existimat nos, quum ista praecipimus, benignitatis fines introrsus referre, et illi minus laxum limitem aperire; ne perperam monitiones nostras exaudiat.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a way, means"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-bKr5~Ecu",
      "links": [
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ],
        [
          "means",
          "means"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "(figuratively) a way, means"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "14 16 10 10 10 15 17 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 13 10 10 10 15 21 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -es (t-stem)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 1.16–17",
          "roman": "Oedipodae confusa domus",
          "text": "limes mihi carminis esto",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 4.10.168–170",
          "roman": "ut Gyarae clausus scopulis paruaque Seripho",
          "text": "Unus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis,\naestuat infelix angusto limite mundi",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a boundary, border, end"
      ],
      "id": "en-limes-la-noun-K2TX~1DS",
      "links": [
        [
          "transferred senses",
          "transferred sense#English"
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        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ],
        [
          "border",
          "border"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ]
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred senses):",
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 2 CE, Ovidius, Remedia Amoris 325–326",
          "roman": "Iudiciumque brevi limite falle tuum.",
          "text": "Qua potes, in peius dotes deflecte puellae,",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 9.1.3",
          "text": "ita quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "a distinction, difference"
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          "transferred senses",
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        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
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      "ipa": "[ˈliː.mes]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
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}

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}

{
  "etymology_number": "3",
  "etymology_text": "Inflection of līmō (“besmirch”).",
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      "ipa": "[ˈliː.mes]",
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    }
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}
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          "word": "lemmeto"
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        {
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            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limito"
        },
        {
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          ],
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          "lang_code": "pl",
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            "borrowed"
          ],
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        },
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            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "limite"
        },
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          "lang_code": "ro",
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            "borrowed"
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            "borrowed"
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            "borrowed"
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      ]
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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    {
      "form": "līmes",
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        [
          "līmes",
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        ]
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitēs",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitēs",
          "limites#Latin"
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      ],
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitis",
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        [
          "līmitis",
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        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "līmitum",
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          "līmitum",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitī",
      "links": [
        [
          "līmitī",
          "limiti#Latin"
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        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitibus",
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        [
          "līmitibus",
          "limitibus#Latin"
        ]
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        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "līmitem",
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        [
          "līmitem",
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        ]
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitēs",
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        [
          "līmitēs",
          "limites#Latin"
        ]
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "līmite",
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          "līmite",
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "līmitibus",
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          "līmitibus",
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        ]
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        "plural"
      ]
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        [
          "līmes",
          "limes#Latin"
        ]
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līmitēs",
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        [
          "līmitēs",
          "limites#Latin"
        ]
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      "args": {
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    }
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
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      "word": "līmen"
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      "word": "sublīmis"
    }
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    {
      "glosses": [
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      ],
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        [
          "limit",
          "limit"
        ],
        [
          "estates",
          "estates"
        ],
        [
          "fields",
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        ],
        [
          "border",
          "border"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
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        ]
      ],
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        {
          "word": "fīnis"
        },
        {
          "word": "modus"
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        {
          "word": "cacūmen"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a fortified boundary line, a boundary wall"
      ],
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          "fortified",
          "fortified"
        ],
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ],
        [
          "wall",
          "wall"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.19–20",
          "roman": "vēnit et intrāvit dubitātī tēcta parentis",
          "text": "adclīvī Clymenēia līmite prōlēs",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a path, footpath"
      ],
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        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "footpath",
          "footpath"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a road"
      ],
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        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "any path:",
        "a by-way"
      ],
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        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "by-way",
          "by-way"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.3.18",
          "roman": "si male dicetis, vostro gradiar limite.",
          "text": "si bene dicetis, vostra ripa vos sequar,",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 6.26",
          "text": "si quidem bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditus patet,[…], nunc tamen tanto praemio exposito enitar multo vigilantius",
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          "roman": "ut capias, idem limes agendus erit.",
          "text": "nec stabiles animos annis viridemque iuventam",
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          "ref": "c. 59 CE, Seneca Minor, De Beneficiis 1.15.2",
          "text": "Quare si quis existimat nos, quum ista praecipimus, benignitatis fines introrsus referre, et illi minus laxum limitem aperire; ne perperam monitiones nostras exaudiat.",
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          "text": "limes mihi carminis esto",
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          "ref": "c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 4.10.168–170",
          "roman": "ut Gyarae clausus scopulis paruaque Seripho",
          "text": "Unus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis,\naestuat infelix angusto limite mundi",
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