different between pavid vs impavid

English

Latin pavere (“to fear”).

pavid (comparative more pavid, superlative most pavid)

fearful, timid
- 1843 William Harrison Ainsworth - Ainsworth's Magazine
  Their multitudes might inspire even their pavid nature with courage to attack, and brought to my fancy the fate of that unhappy prisoner who, thrown into a blind dungeon, was in one night literally devoured by rats.

From Latin impavidus, itself from im- (“not”) + pavidus (“fearful”)

impavid (comparative more impavid, superlative most impavid)

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
OED 2nd edition 1989

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