limax

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax), from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-m-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.maːks/, [ˈlʲiːmäːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.maks/, [ˈliːmäks]

līmāx f (genitive līmācis); third declension

1. slug, snail

Third-declension noun.

• “limax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λεῖμαξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 843

Borrowed from Latin limax.

limax m (plural limacși)

1. slug

   Synonym: melc fără casă

• melc