Etymology

limitrophe

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Today it means: Border, frontier; being or existing along a border or frontier. Full definition →

French limitrophe ← Latin limitrophus
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  1. Latin · derived fromlimitrophus
  2. French · borrowed fromlimitrophe
  3. English todaylimitrophe

From French limitrophe, from Latin limitrophus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.