limiter
French, verb/li.mi.te/
limiter is spelled L-I-M-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Limiter is a French verb meaning “to mark, to limit (to show a physical limit or boundary)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Servir de ligne de démarcation à un terrain ou à un pays”.
What does limiter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mark, to limit (to show a physical limit or boundary)
- 2
to limit (to state a limit for)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Servir de ligne de démarcation à un terrain ou à un pays. 2. Assigner une limite, en parlant du prix et de la quantité des choses, du nombre des personnes, de la durée du temps. 3. se fixer des limites, se contenter de quelque chose
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of limiter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- limitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- limité participle past
- limite first-person indicative present
- limites indicative present second-person
- limitons first-person indicative plural
- limitez indicative plural present
- limitent indicative plural present
- limitais first-person imperfect indicative
- limitait imperfect indicative singular
- limitions first-person imperfect indicative
- limitiez imperfect indicative plural
- limitaient imperfect indicative plural
- limitai first-person historic indicative
- limitas historic indicative past
- limita historic indicative past
- limitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce limiter?
- /li.mi.te/
- \li.mi.te\
- [li.mi.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to limiter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is limiter in French?
limiter appears 22 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).