English
limitary
Limitary comes from Latin līmitāris ‘limit, 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 CElīmitāris‘limit, border’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667limitary
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 CElīmitāris‘limit, border’
- Englishearliest quotation 1667limitary
Earliest quotation: 1667, John Milton, (please specify the page number): “Proud limitary cherub.”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- ‘to bow, to bend’
sublime, ell, subliminal, ulna, 7 more
through Latin līmes ‘a limit set between two estates or fields,…’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to a limit or boundary.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin līmus / limitary