Word Origin Summary

Limão is attested in Portuguese. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. لیموFASderived from
2. लेम्बुMundariderived from
3. لَيْمُونAndalusian Arabicderived from
4. لَيْمُونArabicderived from
5. निम्बूSanskritborrowed from
6. *limawProto-Malayicinherited from
7. *limawProto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesianinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• pamplemousse

  French · borrowed from

• pampëlëmuus

  Wolof · borrowed from

• pompelmo

  Italian · borrowed from

• Pampelmuse

  German · derived from

• pampelmoes

  English · derived from

• ลีเมา

  Urak Lawoi' · derived from

• pomelo

  Spanish · derived from

• pomelo

  Tagalog · borrowed from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root