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- Late Latin · derived fromdēlīmitō“to mark out the limits”
- French · borrowed fromdélimiter
- English todaydelimit
From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“to mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“to limit, to bound”); see limit.
Words from the same roots
Frenchdélimiter all →
deliminatedelimitate
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.