English
limitaneous
Limitaneous comes from Latin limitaneus ‘border’, and goes back to līmus ‘askew’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElīmus‘askew’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElīmes‘a limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElimitaneus‘border’
- Englishearliest quotation 1803limitaneous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElīmus‘askew’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElīmes‘a limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElimitaneus‘border’
- Englishearliest quotation 1803limitaneous
Earliest quotation: 1803, John Pinkerton: “Such being the case, it has been regarded as…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- ‘to bow, to bend’
sublime, ell, subliminal, ulna, 6 more
through Latin līmus ‘askew’
through Latin līmes ‘a limit set between two estates or fields,…’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to a limit.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin līmus / limitaneous