Masculine

limbus

Meaning

Concepts

(declension-2, masculine) A border, edge
(declension-2, masculine) hem, fringe, tassel
(Ecclesiastical, Latin, declension-2, masculine) limbo

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈlɪm.bʊs]

Uncertain. Possibly: * from Proto-Indo-European *lemb- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”), the same tentative root as Sanskrit लम्बते (lambate, “hangs down”) and English limp, a nasal-infixed form of *leb-; * or from Proto-Indo-European *len-, whence Lithuanian linta (“ribbon”) and Old Norse linnr (“whether”).