limen

Learned borrowing from Latin līmen (“threshold”).

limen (plural limens or limina)

1. A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

• Melin, Milne, limne

limen

1. inflection of limar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Likely related to līmus (“transverse, oblique”), with the suffix -men. See also līmes.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.men]

līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension

1. threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)
   • Propertius, Elegiae:

     Erit tantī crīminis illa memor, et tē circum omnīs aliās īrāta puellās differet heu nūllō līmine cārus eris.

     She will remember such crimes, and fiercely denounce you to all the other girls: alas, you’ll be loved on no threshold.

2. lintel
3. threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door

   Synonyms: ingressus, iānua, initium, foris, porta, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

4. house, home, abode, dwelling
5. beginning, commencement

   Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, orīgō, rudīmentum, exordium

   Antonym: fīnis

6. end, termination

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• līmus
• līmes
• sublīmis

• “limen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "limen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• limen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to cross the threshold: pedem limine efferre
    
• “limen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “limen”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “līmen”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 343

From lijm +‎ -en.

limen

1. to glue, to make stick with glue

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: lijmen
• Limburgish: lieme

• “limen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “limen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

limen m

1. definite singular of lime

limen m

1. definite singular of lime

From lim

• IPA^(key): /lǐmen/
• Hyphenation: li‧men

lìmen (Cyrillic spelling лѝмен, definite lìmenī)

1. (relational) tin, sheet metal

• “limen”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimen/ [ˈli.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -imen
• Syllabification: li‧men

Learned borrowing from Latin līmen.

limen m (plural límenes)

1. (poetic) threshold, doorstep

   Synonym: umbral

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

limen

1. inflection of limar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

• “limen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

limen

1. definite singular of lime