C19: via French from Late Latin limitrophus, from limit-limit + Greek -trophus supporting; originally referring to borderland that supported frontier troops
Examples of 'limitrophe' in a sentence
limitrophe
As a result, the limitrophe border zone shows particular social and economic characteristics.
Sageata Radu, Dumitrescu Bianca, Damian Nicoleta 2010, 'Cross-border cooperation in the Danube-lined Romanian/Bulgarian border-space: Geographicalconsiderations', Geographica Pannonicahttp://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-8724/2010/0354-87241002067S.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)