liminal
/ˈlɪmən(ə)l/
- adj.
- 阈限的
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
liminal
词源说明
From Latin līmināris, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns). Līmen is possibly derived from līmus (“askew; sideways”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + -men (suffix forming neuter nouns of the third declension) (from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)).
释义
形容词adjective
- 1Of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold. [from late 19th c.]
- 2(anthropology, literary theory) Pertaining to or in a state that is in-between or transitional between two (or more) other states, while belonging to neither; pertaining to or in a state such as to be neither definitively in a particular other state or category nor definitively outside it.
- 3Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process. [from late 19th c.]