limulus

Diminutive from līmus (“askance”) +‎ -ulus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.mu.lus/, [ˈlʲiːmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.mu.lus/, [ˈliːmulus]

līmulus (feminine līmula, neuter līmulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of līmus (“askance, oblique”)
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.12:

     Viden limulis, obsecro, ut intuentur?

   • Terentianus Maurus, De litteris, de syllabis, de metris 284:

     haec prius, Bassine fili et tu gener Novate mi, / perpolite, quam potestis, crebriore limula.

2. squinting, squint-eyed

First/second-declension adjective.

• līmus

• Translingual: Limulus

• “limulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.