limousine

See also: Limousine

English

A limousine (sense 3).

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɪməˈziːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

limousine (plural limousines)

1. An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
2. An automobile with such a body. [from 1902]

   Synonym: limo (slang)

3. A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. [from 1930s]

   Synonym: limo (slang)

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:

     It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

4. An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses. [from 1959]

   Synonym: shuttle

Derived terms

• limo
• limousinelike
• limousine liberal
• stretch limousine

Translations

automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front

automobile with such a body

luxury sedan/saloon car

• Afrikaans: limousine, limo
• Arabic: لِيمُوزِين m (limuzīn)
• Armenian: լիմուզին (hy) (limuzin)
• Belarusian: лімузін (limuzin)
• Bulgarian: лимузи́на f (limuzína)
• Catalan: limusina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豪華轎車／豪华轿车 (zh) (háohuá jiàochē), 加長轎車／加长轿车 (jiācháng jiàochē)

• Czech: limuzína (cs) f
• Danish: limousine
• Dutch: limousine (nl) f, limo (nl) (slang)
• Finnish: limusiini (fi)
• French: limousine (fr) f
• German: Limousine (de) f, Stretchlimousine f
• Greek: λιμουζίνα (el) f (limouzína)
• Hebrew: לימוזינה (he) f (limuzína)
• Hindi: लिमोसिन (limosin)
• Hungarian: limuzin (hu)
• Icelandic: limmósína f, glæsivagn m, eðalvagn m
• Indonesian: limusin (id), limosin
• Italian: limousine (it)
• Japanese: リムジン (ja) (rimujin), リモ (rimo) (slang)
• Kazakh: өкілеттік лимузин (ökılettık limuzin)
• Korean: 리무진 (rimujin), 리모 (rimo) (slang)
• Latvian: limuzīns
• Lithuanian: limuzinas
• Macedonian: лимузи́на f (limuzína)
• Malay: limusin
• Mongolian: лимузин (mn) (limuzin)
• Norwegian: limousin (no), limo (no) (slang)
• Persian: لیموزین
• Polish: limuzyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: limusine (pt) f, limusina f
• Romanian: limuzină (ro)
• Russian: лимузи́н (ru) m (limuzín)
• Serbo-Croatian: limuzina (sh) f
• Slovak: limuzína f
• Spanish: limusina (es) f
• Swedish: limousin (sv) c
• Tagalog: limusina, limo (slang)
• Thai: ลีมูซีน (lee-moo-seen), ลีโม (līmo)
• Turkish: limuzin (tr)
• Ukrainian: лімузин m (limuzyn)
• Uzbek: limuzin (uz)

Further reading

• limousine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “limousine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine or English limousine.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

limousine (plural limousines)

1. limousine (luxury sedan)

   Synonym: limo

Derived terms

• limo

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French limousine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌli.muˈzi.nə/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˌli.moːˈzi.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: li‧mou‧si‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

limousine f (plural limousines)

1. limousine (luxury sedan)

   Synonym: limo

Derived terms

• limo

French

Etymology

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.mu.zin/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

limousine f (plural limousines)

1. (fashion) traditional woolen cloak from Haute-Vienne
2. (automotive) limousine, luxury car

   Synonym: berline

4. (zoology) limousin (cattle breed)

Descendants

• → Dutch: limousine
• → English: limousine
• → German: Limousine
• → Portuguese: limusine, limusina, limousine
• → Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: limuzin

Adjective

limousine

1. feminine singular of limousin

Further reading

• “limousine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French limousine.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /li.muˈzĩ.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /li.muˈzĩ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /li.muˈzi.ne/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /li.muˈzi.nɨ/

• Hyphenation: li‧mou‧si‧ne

Noun

limousine f (plural limousines)

1. Alternative spelling of limusine

Swedish

Alternative forms

• limousin

Noun

limousine c

1. a limousine (luxury sedan)

Declension

Declension of limousine

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	limousine	limousines
	definite	limousinen	limousinens
plural	indefinite	limousiner	limousiners
	definite	limousinerna	limousinernas

References

• limousine in Svensk ordbok (SO)