limax

See also: Limax

English

limax

(obsolete, zoology) A slug or slug-like creature.
- 1752, John Hill, A General Natural History, page 141:
  The Cylindrus is a simple shell, without a hinge, formed of one continued piece, and of a figure approaching to a cylinder […] . The animal inhabiting the Cylindrus is a limax.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax), from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-m-. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

līmāx f (genitive līmācis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

Through Vulgar *limācem:

Gallo-Romance:
- Occitan: limaç
- Old French: limaz
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: llimaz
- Old Galician-Portuguese: (influenced by a substrate)
  - Galician: lesma
  - Portuguese: lesma
Borrowings:
- → English: limax
- → Esperanto: limako
  - → Ido: limako
- → Interlingua: limace
- → Italian: limace
- → Romanian: limax
- → Translingual: Limax

Through Vulgar *limāca:

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: lumaca
- Venetan: łimega
Gallo-Romance:
- Occitan: limaca, limauca
  - Gascon: limaca
Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: lumèga
- Lombard: lumaga, lumega, numega
- Piedmontese: lumega
- Romagnol: lumega, lumeaga

Through Vulgar *limācum:

Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: lumec
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: llimac
- Occitan: limac, limauc
  - Gascon: limac
  - Languedocien: milauc, milauco
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: limaco, llimaco
- Asturian: llimiagu
- Spanish: lumiaco (Cantabria)
Borrowings:
- → Spanish: limaco (semi-learned)
  - → Galician: limaco

Through Vulgar *limācea:

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: limaccia
- Sicilian: limaccia
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansh: glimaja
Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: lumassa
- Lombard: limazza
- Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa
Gallo-Romance:
- Occitan: limaça
- Old French: limace
  - French: limace
    - → English: limace
  - Norman: lînmache
Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: limacha
- Spanish: limaza

“limax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“limax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λεῖμαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 843

Borrowed from Latin limax.

limax m (plural limacși)