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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lividity English
- lividly English
- lividness English
- lavendula Latin
- livedo Latin
- livens Latin
- livor Latin
- luridus Latin
- luror Latin
- līveō Latin
- līvor Latin
- lūridus Latin
- *(s)leh₃y- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)leh₃y- Proto-Indo-European
- *sliwo- Proto-Indo-European
- *slaihǭ Proto-Germanic
- Śliwa Polish
- Śliwka Polish
- lavendre Old French
- *līwos Proto-Celtic
- lavendre xno