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Word History: Our use of the word limboto refer to states of oblivion, confinement, or transition is derived from the theological sense of Limbo as a place where souls remain that cannot enter heaven, for example, unbaptized infants. Limbo in Roman Catholic theology is located on the border of Hell, which explains the name chosen for it. The Latin word limbus, having meanings such as "an ornamental border to a fringe" and "a band or girdle," was chosen by Christian theologians of the Middle Ages to denote this border region. English borrowed the word limbus directly, but the form that caught on in English, limbo, first recorded in a work composed around 1378, is from the ablative form of limbus, the form that would be used in expressions such as in limb
1. often Limbo Roman Catholic Church
The abode of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls, as those of infants or
virtuous individuals who lived before the coming of Christ.
2. A region or condition of oblivion or neglect: Management
kept her promotion in limbo for months.
3. A state or place of confinement.
4. An intermediate place or state.
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