Lim Oとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlɪ.məʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈlɪ.moʊ/
• 韻: -ɪməʊ

名詞

limo (plural limos)

1. (informal) Clipping of limousine.
   • 1999, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, New York: Henry Holt, page 495:

     He is believed to be a patron of certain brothels and élite “home delivery” services specializing in celebrity look-alikes. On one occasion he was actually caught in flagrante with a counterfeit Vina in the back of a super-stretch, but when the sharp-eyed cop who saw the hooker responding to a signal and entering the limo understood what was going on, […]

   • 2010, Jeff Dunham, All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me:

     There were no limos or extravagances at this point, because we all wanted to make as much money as possible. We played it cheap. No huge catering bills, no wild parties, not even upgraded hotel rooms. Whenever we arrived at an airport Robin would be there to meet us in a rented SUV or big sedan, and we'd head to the gig on our own.

   • 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:

     No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]

   • 2015, “King Kunta”, in To Pimp a Butterfly, performed by Kendrick Lamar:

     Limo tinted with the gold plates / Straight from the bottom, this the belly of the beast / From a peasant to a prince to a motherfuckin' king

派生語

派生した語

• → Thai: ลีโม (lii-moo)

アナグラム

• Milo, OIML, milo, moil

語源 1

From līma (“a file, rasp”).

動詞

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation

1. to sharpen
2. to file, file off
3. to polish, finish
4. (figuratively) to investigate accurately

Conjugation

At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

派生語

• līmātē
• līmātus

関連する語

派生した語

語源 2

From līmus (“mud, slime”).

動詞

līmō (present infinitive līmāre, perfect active līmāvī, supine līmātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to besmirch
2. to bespatter with mud

Conjugation

関連する語

派生した語

• Romanian: ima
• Sicilian: lippu (?)

参照

• “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "limo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “limo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus