Sublime
late 16th century (in the sense ‘dignified, aloof’): from Latin sublimis, from sub- ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold’, limus ‘oblique’.
wiktionary
From Middle English sublimen, borrowed from Old French sublimer, from Latin sublimō(“to raise on high; to sublimate (in Medieval Latin)”).
From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis(“high”), from sub-(“up to, upwards”) + a root of uncertain affiliation often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus(“oblique”) or līmen(“threshold, entrance, lintel”)
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sublime (adj.)
1580s, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from French sublime (15c.), or directly from Latin sublimis "uplifted, high, borne aloft, lofty, exalted, eminent, distinguished," possibly originally "sloping up to the lintel," from sub "up to" (see sub-) + limen "lintel, threshold, sill" (see limit (n.)). The sublime (n.) "the sublime part of anything, that which is stately or imposing" is from 1670s. For Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, see Porte.
