limit

limit · noun, adjective¹

1. Latin · derived fromlīmes, līmit-“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”
2. Old French · derived fromlimit
3. Middle English · inherited fromlimit
4. English todaylimit

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.

limit · verb²

1. Latin · derived fromlīmitō“to bound, limit, fix, determine”
2. Old French · derived fromlimiter
3. Middle English · inherited fromlimiten
4. English todaylimit

From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin līmitō (“to bound, limit, fix, determine”), from līmes; see noun.

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