limit: [14] Latin līmes originally denoted a ‘path between fields’, but it became extended metaphorically to any ‘boundary’ or ‘limit’, and that was the sense in which English acquired it (in its stem form līmit-). => lintel
limit (n.)
c. 1400, "boundary, frontier," from Old French limite "a boundary," from Latin limitem (nominative limes) "a boundary, limit, border, embankment between fields," related to limen "threshold." Originally of territory; general sense from early 15c. Colloquial sense of "the very extreme, the greatest degree imaginable" is from 1904.
limit (v.)
late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting.
例文
1. In some cases there is a mini-mum age limit .
最低年齢制限がある場合があります。
2.They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
彼らは低技術仕様を実装することでコストを必死に制限している。
3.The three month time limit will be up in mid-June.
の3カ月間の期限は6月中旬まで。
4.He was nearly three times over the drink drive limit .
彼は酔っ払い運転の規定基準を3倍も超えている。
5.A speed limit of 30 mph was introduced in built-up areas.