limn

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: lĭm
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /lɪm/
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• rhymes with -ɪm
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• homophone: lim
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• homophone: limb
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• CMU ARPABET: L IH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English limnen, limyne, lymm, lymn, lymne (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), a variant of luminen (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), short form of enluminen (“to shed light on, illuminate; to enlighten; to make bright or clear; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript); to depict, describe; to adorn or embellish with figures of speech or poetry; to make famous, glorious, or illustrious”), from Old French enluminer (“to brighten, light up; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript)”), from Latin illūminō (“to brighten, light up; to adorn; to make conspicuous”), from il- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside’)) + lūminō (“to brighten, illuminate; to reveal”) (from lūmen (“light; (poetic) brightness”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine; to see”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

4 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: dessiner — to draw — see also draw
• French: peindre — to paint — see also paint
• French: dépeindre — to delineate — see also delineate
• French: enluminer — to illuminate, as a manuscript — see also illuminate