limpidus

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”) and so cognate with Old Norse leiptr (“lightning”), Lithuanian liepsnà (“flame”), Ancient Greek λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”), Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Latvian lāpa (“torch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliːm.pi.dus/, [ˈlʲiːmpɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlim.pi.dus/, [ˈlimpid̪us]

Adjective

līmpidus (feminine līmpida, neuter līmpidum, superlative līmpidissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. clear, bright, limpid

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	līmpidus	līmpida	līmpidum		līmpidī	līmpidae	līmpida
Genitive	līmpidī	līmpidae	līmpidī		līmpidōrum	līmpidārum	līmpidōrum
Dative	līmpidō		līmpidō		līmpidīs
Accusative	līmpidum	līmpidam	līmpidum		līmpidōs	līmpidās	līmpida
Ablative	līmpidō	līmpidā	līmpidō		līmpidīs
Vocative	līmpide	līmpida	līmpidum		līmpidī	līmpidae	līmpida

Descendants

• Aromanian: limpid, limpidi
• Asturian: llimpiu
• → French: limpide
  • → English: limpid
• → Italian: limpido
• Portuguese: limpo; → límpido
• Romanian: limpede; → limpid
• Spanish: limpio
  • → Sardinian: limpiu
• → límpido
• → Spanish: límpido

References

• “limpidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “limpidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limpidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.