limes
noun
a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
limites
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pluralof limes.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They of the limites of Famagusta do keep the statutes of the Frenchmen which sometimes did rule there.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
Scholares vernacula lingua intra Collegii limites nullo prætextu utuntor, was the law,—a law which Cotton Mather complains was so neglected in his day "as to render our scholars very unfit for a conversation with strangers."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
He reverted abruptly to the defensive policy of Augustus and began to fortify the limites on a more elaborate scale.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
These limites were protected by small forts manned by auxiliary troops.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
At present Epiontology is divided into geography and palaeontology, "mais cette division trop inegale et a limites bien vagues disparaitra probablement."
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
