English
pallid
Pallid comes from Latin pallidus ‘pale, pallid, wan’, and goes back to palleō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalleō‘to be pale’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpallidus‘pale, pallid, wan’
- Englishearliest quotation 2004pallid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalleō‘to be pale’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpallidus‘pale, pallid, wan’
- Englishearliest quotation 2004pallid
Earliest quotation: 2004, David Mitchell, Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery: “A Sephardic romance, composed before the expulsion of the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pelH- ‘gray’
poly, fallow, paloma, poulter, palomino, 25 more
through Latin palleō ‘to be pale’
through Latin pallidus ‘pale, pallid, wan’
Today it means
adj Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin palleō / pallid