English
limpid
Limpid comes from French limpide ‘clear, limpid’, and goes back to Latin limpidus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElimpidus‘clear, bright, transparent, limpid’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlimpide‘clear, limpid’
- Englishearliest quotation 1986limpid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElimpidus‘clear, bright, transparent, limpid’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlimpide‘clear, limpid’
- Englishearliest quotation 1986limpid
Earliest quotation: 1986, John le Carré: “He had a soft honey-coloured moustache and the limpid…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- ‘to shine’
Today it means
adj Clear, transparent or bright.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin limpidus / limpid