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Latin Sense Limit Originally Boundary French 1353.Limit 英

正面 1353.limit
英 ['lɪmɪt]美 ['lɪmɪt]

背面
释义:
n. 限制;限度;界线vt. 限制;限定
例句:
1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit.有些情况下有最低年龄限制。

1. b (保护) + order (命令) => 接受命令,保护边界。
limit 限度,限制来自拉丁语limitem,边界,界限。引申词义界限,限制。
limitlimit: [14] Latin līmes originally denoted a ‘path between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and that was the sense in which English acquired it (in its stem form līmit-).=> lintellimit (n.)c. 1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.limit (v.)late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting."

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