lividus

Latin

adj
Definitions
  • (color) leaden, bluish, blue
  • especially, produced by beating, bruising, etc. black and blue, livid
  • (transferred sense) making livid, that is deadly
  • (figurative) envious, invidious, spiteful, malicious

Etymology

Suffix from Latin līveō (I am bluish, I envy, envy, I am of a bluish color livid) root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (bluish, blueish, plum-coloured).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*(s)leh₃y-

Gloss

bluish, blueish, plum-coloured

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