limitrophus

== Latin == === Etymology === From līmes (“border”) + Ancient Greek -τροφος (-trophos, “feeding”). Attested in the Codex Theodosianus. === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [liˈmiː.tro.fus] === Adjective === līmitrophus (feminine līmitropha, neuter līmitrophum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin) feeding the frontier soldiers (Medieval Latin, by extension) on the frontier ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: limítrof → French: limitrophe→ English: limitrophe→ Portuguese: limítrofe→ Romanian: limitrof→ Spanish: limítrofe→ Russian: лимитроф (limitrof) → Italian: limitrofo === References === “limitrophus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “limitrophus”, 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 354