Limesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlʌɪmiːz/

名詞

limes (plural limites)

1. A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 92:

     Their presence in the late fourth century on the River Main (immediately to the east of the Roman limes) is documented in Roman sources, as are their wars with the Alemanni.

語源 2

Inflected forms.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /lʌɪmz/
• 韻: -aɪmz

名詞

limes

1. plural of lime

アナグラム

• Imels, Liems, Miles, Selim, miles, milse, misle, slime, smile

名詞

limes

1. genitive singular of lim

名詞

līmes

1. genitive singular of līm

語源 1

From līmus (“askew”) +‎ -es (“going”). See also līmen.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈliː.mɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.mes]

名詞

līmes m (genitive līmitis); third declension

1. a limit set between two estates or fields, border, boundary

   Synonyms: fīnis, modus, cacūmen

2. a fortified boundary line, a boundary wall
3. any path:
   1. a path, footpath
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.19–20:

        adclīvī Clymenēia līmite prōlēs
        vēnit et intrāvit dubitātī tēcta parentis

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. a road
   3. a by-way
   4. (figuratively) a way, means
      • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.3.18:

        si bene dicetis, vostra ripa vos sequar,
        si male dicetis, vostro gradiar limite.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 6.26:

        si quidem bene meritis de patria quasi limes ad caeli aditus patet, […] , nunc tamen tanto praemio exposito enitar multo vigilantius

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • 2 CE, Ovidius, Ars Amatoria 3.557–558:

        nec stabiles animos annis viridemque iuventam
        ut capias, idem limes agendus erit.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • c. 59 CE, Seneca Minor, De Beneficiis 1.15.2:

        Quare si quis existimat nos, quum ista praecipimus, benignitatis fines introrsus referre, et illi minus laxum limitem aperire; ne perperam monitiones nostras exaudiat.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (transferred senses):
   1. a boundary, border, end
      • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 1.16–17:

        limes mihi carminis esto
        Oedipodae confusa domus

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 4.10.168–170:

        Unus Pellaeo iuueni non sufficit orbis,
        aestuat infelix angusto limite mundi
        ut Gyarae clausus scopulis paruaque Seripho

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. a distinction, difference
      • c. 2 CE, Ovidius, Remedia Amoris 325–326:

        Qua potes, in peius dotes deflecte puellae,
        Iudiciumque brevi limite falle tuum.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 9.1.3:

        ita quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• līmitāneus
• līmitō

関連する語

• līmen
• sublīmis

派生した語

語源 2

Inflection of līmō (“sharpen, file”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈliː.meːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.mes]

動詞

līmēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō

語源 3

Inflection of līmō (“besmirch”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈliː.meːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈliː.mes]

動詞

līmēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō

参照

• “limes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "limes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “limes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “līmes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 344