# limen
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin līmen (“threshold”).

### Noun

limen (plural limens or limina)
* A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

### Anagrams

* Melin, Milne, limne

## Galician
### Verb

limen
* inflection of limar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈliː.men/, [ˈlʲiːmɛn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.men/, [ˈliːmen]

### Noun

līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension
* 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.
* lintel
* threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door
    Synonyms: ingressus, iānua, initium, foris, porta, ingressiō, vestibulum
    Antonym: abitus
* house, home, abode, dwelling
* beginning, commencement
    Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, orīgō, rudīmentum, exordium
    Antonym: fīnis
* end, termination

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* ēlīminō
* Līmentīnus
* līmināris
* postlīminium

#### Related terms

* līmus
* līmes
* sublīmis

#### Descendants

* Borrowed:
** → Italian: limine
** → Spanish: limen
* Inherited:
** Ladin: lime, lim
** Lombard: limni
** Norman: lime (feminine)
** Romansch: glim, im

### References

* “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, 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

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From lijm +‎ -en.

### Verb

limen
* to glue, to make stick with glue

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: lijmen
* Limburgish: lieme

### Further reading

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

limen m
* definite singular of lime

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

limen m
* definite singular of lime

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From lim

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lǐmen/
* Hyphenation: li‧men

### Adjective

lìmen (Cyrillic spelling лѝмен, definite lìmenī)
* (relational) tin, sheet metal

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlimen/ [ˈli.mẽn]
* Rhymes: -imen
* Syllabification: li‧men

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin līmen.

#### Noun

limen m (plural límenes)
* (poetic) threshold, doorstep
    Synonym: umbral

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

limen
* inflection of limar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

limen
* definite singular of lime