limen

Borrowed from Latin limen (“threshold”)

limen (plural limens or limina)

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

• Melin, Milne

limen

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of limar

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.men/, [ˈliː.mɛn]

līmen n (genitive līminis); third declension

1. threshold, doorstep, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)
2. lintel
3. threshold, entrance, doorway, approach; door
4. house, home, abode, dwelling
5. beginning, commencement
6. end, termination

Third declension neuter.

• Italian: limine
• Spanish: limen

• 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, 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

From lijm +‎ -en.

limen

1. to glue, to make stick with glue

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: lijmen
• Limburgish: lieme

• “limen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “limen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

limen m

1. definite singular of lime

limen m

1. definite singular of lime

• IPA^(key): /lǐmen/
• Hyphenation: li‧men

lìmen (definite lìmenī, Cyrillic spelling лѝмен)

1. made of tin or sheet metal; tin-

From Latin līmen.

limen m (plural límenes)

1. (poetic) threshold, doorstep

• umbral

See limar

limen

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of limar.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of limar.
3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of limar.