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limus.

apron crossed with purple, worn by attendants at sacrifice/by magistrates; mud/mire; slime; filth/pollution; silt; crusted dirt; sediment of wine;

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

adj[ˈliː.mʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈliː.mus]

  1. sidelong, askew, aslant, askance

    adjective · declension-1 · declension-2
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l-der. Proto-Italic *līmos? Latin līmus Possibly from Proto-Italic *līmos (“oblique”), with no known cognates outside of Italic. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”). Compare perhaps Proto-Germanic *limuz (“limb, branch”).

noun[ˈliː.mʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈliː.mus]

  1. mud, slime, muck

    declension-2

  2. feces within the bowels

    declension-2 · figuratively

  3. filth, pollution

    declension-2
Where this word comes from

Somewhat uncertain; maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) or *(s)ley-mo- (“slime”). Possible cognates include λίμνη (límnē, “marsh, pool, lake”), Sanskrit लिनाति (lināti, “sticks, stays, adheres to; slips into, disappears”), Ukrainian слимак (slymak, “snail”), Old Church Slavonic слина (slina, “spittle”), Old Irish sligim (“to smear”), leinam (“to follow”, literally “to stick to”), Irish lean, Welsh llyfn (“smooth”), English slime. According to De Vaan, Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax, “snail”) is probably conversely borrowed from Latin.

noun[ˈliː.mʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈliː.mus]

  1. a priest's apron

    declension-2
Where this word comes from

Possibly from ligō (“to tie, bind, bind together, bind up, bandage, bind fast”).

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