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virid
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin viridis, from vire? (“I am green”). Doublet of vert.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v???d/
Noun
virid (plural virids)
- (rare) A green colour.
- 1991, Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages, Penguin Books, page 173:
- In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin ‘like our other chaplains’, […]
- 1994, Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese, volume 1, Paradigm Publications, page 249:
- (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […]
- 1991, Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages, Penguin Books, page 173:
Adjective
virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)
- Green, verdant.
- 1858, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Canto IV, page 52,
- The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.
- 1929, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, 2006, page 135,
- Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
- 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
- His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.
- 1858, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Canto IV, page 52,
Related terms
- viridescence
- viridescent
- viridian
- viridity
See also
- Appendix:Colors
Etymology 2
From virus +? -id or from translingual viridae (“a grouping of viruses”), from virus +? -idae, from Latin virus (“poison”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va???d/
Noun
virid (plural virids)
- (usually in the plural) Any of a group of related viruses.
virid From the web:
vivid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek ???? (bíos, “life”).
The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from a brand name.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?v?d/
Adjective
vivid (comparative vivider, superlative vividest)
- (of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
- (of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
- Full of life, strikingly alive.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
vivid (plural vivids)
- (New Zealand) A felt-tipped permanent marker.
Further reading
- vivid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vivid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Spanish
Verb
vivid
- (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of vivir.
vivid From the web:
- what vivid means
- what vivid dreams mean
- what does vivid mean
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