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limine

limine is a Latin form of limen, meaning “threshold, doorway; entrance; home”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 189 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.118: patres hi quos videtis iacebant in limine, matresque miserae pernoctabant ad ostium carceris ab extremo conspectu liberum exclusae; quae nihil aliud or …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.486: Limine constiterat: postes tremuisse feruntur

All forms of limen (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.