calid

See also: càlid

English

Etymology

From Italian caldo, from Latin calidus (“hot”).

Adjective

calid (comparative more calid, superlative most calid)

1. (obsolete) hot; burning; ardent
   • 1883, Roswell Rice, “Rice’s Descant on Time and Immortality”, in Roswell Rice’s Orations and Poems‎^[1], page 241:

     Pit of damnation deep expands its jaws
     Of liquid fire! throwing its curly waves
     Of calid flames, and smoke of sulph’rous fumes,

Related terms

• calidity

References

• “calid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -cidal, Lacid, alcid, cladi