humid

English

Etymology

From French humide, from Latin humidus, correctly umidus (“moist”), from humere, correctly umere (“to be moist”), akin to ūvēns (“moist”), ūvidus, ūdus (“moist”); all from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ-, *wogʷ- (“wet”). Cognate with Old Norse vǫkr (“moist, damp, wet”), Scots wak (“moist, damp, wetness, moisture”), English weaky (“moist, wet”). More at weaky.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhjuːmɪd/, X-SAMPA: /"hju:mId/

Adjective

humid (comparative more humid, superlative most humid)

1. Containing sensible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water or vapor.

   1667 - John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

   Evening cloud, or humid bow.

Synonyms

• damp, moist

Translations

slightly wet

• Armenian: խոնավ (xonav)
• Bulgarian: влажен (bg) (vlažen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濕 (cmn), 湿 (cmn) (shī)

• Czech: vlhký (cs) m
• Dutch: vochtig (nl), vochtige (nl)
• Esperanto: humida
• Finnish: kostea, humidi
• French: mouillé
• German: feucht, feuchte, feuchter, feuchten, feuchtes
• Greek: υγρός (el) (ygrós) m , νοτερός (el) (noterós) m 
• Japanese: 湿気の多い (ja) (しっけのおおい, shikke-no ōi), 蒸し暑い (ja) (mushiatsui)

• Latgalian: volgons
• Latvian: mitrs (lv)
• Polish: wilgotny (pl) m, wilgotna (pl) f, wilgotne (pl) n
• Portuguese: úmido (pt), húmido (pt) m
• Russian: влажный (ru) (vlážnyj) 
• Spanish: húmedo (es)
• Swedish: fuktig (sv)
• Turkish: nemli (tr), rutubetli (tr)
• Vietnamese: ẩm (vi)
• Welsh: llaith (cy)
• West Frisian: fochtich, damp

External links

• humid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• humid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• humid at OneLook Dictionary Search