postliminium

== English == === Alternative forms === postliminy === Etymology === From Latin postlīminium. === Noun === postliminium (countable and uncountable, plural postliminia) (historical, Roman antiquity) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy (law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. ==== Related terms ==== postliminiary === References === “postliminium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === From post- (“behind”) + līmen (“threshold”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔs(t).liːˈmɪ.ni.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [post.liˈmiː.ni.um] === Noun === postlīminium n (genitive postlīminiī or postlīminī); second declension the postliminy, the return to one's own country and one's former privileges ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== postlīminiō ==== Descendants ==== → English: postliminium, postliminy → Italian: postliminio, posliminio (rare) === References === “postliminium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “postliminium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press postliminium in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung