From Latin 'littus' (shore) — the technical term for the zone where land meets sea or lake.
Of, relating to, or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake; (as noun) a region lying along a shore.
From Latin 'littoralis' (of the seashore), from 'litus' (litoris) (seashore, beach, coast), of uncertain ultimate PIE origin. One proposed PIE source is *lei- (to flow, to pour), suggesting the shore as the place where water meets land; another connects it to a root meaning border or edge. The word entered English in the 17th century as a technical term in geography and natural history,
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