limenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

limen (plural limens or limina)

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

アナグラム

• Melin, Milne, limne

発音

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

名詞

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

語形変化

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

派生語

関連する語

• līmus
• līmes
• sublīmis

派生した語

参照

• “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