limenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

limen (複数形 limens または limina)

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

アナグラム

• Melin, Milne, limne

Latin

語源

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

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.men/, [ˈlʲiːmɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.men/, [ˈliːmen]

名詞

līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension

1. threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)
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 かつ 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^[1], 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 (in German), volume 5: J L, page 343