livido

See also: lívido

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līvidus, an adjective derived from the verb līveō (to be blueish or livid).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈli.vi.do/
  • Rhymes: -ivido
  • Hyphenation: lì‧vi‧do

Adjective

livido (feminine livida, masculine plural lividi, feminine plural livide)

  1. livid
  2. leaden (of the sky)

Derived terms

Noun

livido m (plural lividi)

  1. bruise

Further reading

  • livido in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

līvidō (present infinitive līvidāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

  1. to render livid

Conjugation

Adjective

līvidō m or n

  1. singular dative/ablative of līvidus

References

  • livido”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "livido", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • livido in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.