'limit' originates from Latin, specifically the word 'līmitāre,' where 'līmes' meant 'boundary or border.'

'līmitāre' transformed into the Old French word 'limiter,' and eventually became the modern English word 'limit' through Middle English.

Initially, it meant 'boundary or border,' but over time it evolved into its current meaning of 'a point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass.'